Out of The Blue: Part 5
Frankie couldn't help but scream as she turned and faced the thing from her night mare. She had believed that it had been her mind messing with her, making her see some one that she knew was a good person as evil. This however was no dream. The dark version of Optimus stood there in the desert and leered at both of them. He had called Prime his brother and now she had to work her mind around that one as well. Top off all of that with the fact that she most likely had a concussion from slamming face first into Prime's steering wheel when the double had ran them off the road, she was about ready to snap.
"What do you want Axis?" Prime demanded, purposefully putting him self between her and his twin.
This didn't go unnoticed by the evil one and he grinned, "Seems like you know what I'm after brother. Tell me some thing? Does she remember yet?"
"Leave," Optimus pulled his weapon from sub space and brandished it, "You hear me Axis, leave NOW!"
"But I just got here, and I have to admit I do rather like it." His red eyes narrowed and focused on the girl behind Prime. "So from the way your acting, I'm guessing she hasn't remembered yet. Huh?"
"KEEP your mouth SHUT!" For once in his very long life Optimus was getting close to loosing his temper.
Frankie stared up at him and gapped. She had wanted him to stop being so stiff, but this wasn't what she'd had in mind by any stretch of the imagination. It was also clear to her that these two where talking about her. Prime and this dark twin seemed to know some thing. One was bound and determined to keep it from her and the other wanted her to know for some odd reason. It was becoming clearer and clearer to the girl that both of them knew more about her than they were letting on but what it could be she had no idea.
The dark one took another look at her and then turned back to his brother.
"Oh Orion," he laughed unpleasantly, "She always did love you best, why I will never know. And you were always so willing to protect the little tramp."
"HEY!" Frankie shouted from her spot, "Don't you dare call me that you over grown pile of scrap! You don't even know me!"
The dark one lowered his eyes for a second and then looked back at her. "Don't I now? I know more about you than you can ever possibly realize. It's your fault they did what they did to me!"
"Frankie," Optimus turned to her, "I'm telling you right now, get back and don't come back out here! UNDERSTAND!"
She took one look at him and shook her head. The man was now deadly serious. It was time to do what he told her, for both his and her own good. So she ducked back behind the rock and waited.
"OH I get it," The dark one sneered, "You don't want her to remember do you? I'd think you would Brother, second chances and all of that. I mean really, it's not like you come across some thing like this every day."
"For the last time Axis, I am telling you. Leave, don't give me a reason to kill you this time."
The dark twin shook his head at the leader, "Kill me? You couldn't kill me then what makes you think you can now?" He paused for a moment, "My self on the other hand? Oh I'm fully prepared to kill you Orion. I'm fully prepared to kill you and take what I should have had all along."
Prime's dark brother suddenly launched him self across the desert and for the second time that day plowed into the red and blue autobot. It only took a few seconds to get going but that was more than enough to get them into full swing. At some point, Optimus lost his weapon and so now it was down to pure hand to hand. Most people would think that 45 foot tall robots wouldn't be very good at martial arts. Most people would be dead wrong. The two of them as it turns out were both very skilled at it and, hard as it may seem to believe, a match for one another.
Frankie was left there to watch this. The more the young woman stared at the robots that were very clearly fighting over her, the worse and worse the sensation of deja vu got. Some where, at some point, she had seen this fight, or one very similar to it before. It was as if the concussion had knocked some thing loose in her head, some kind of barrier that had been put there to keep images out of her mind. She realized that it had always been there, that the night mares that had haunted her for as long as she could remember where some how tied into all of this. The longer the fight went on the worse it got.
The fight its self was getting to the point of actual grappling. The dark one, Axis had managed to somehow get the upper hand for the moment and had hold of Optimus by the throat with a one handed grip. The other fist cocked back ready to launch at him. How ever the urge to taunt his twin was too great for the dark one to resist and so as he held him there He began to gloat.
"You thought you'd keep her safe by keeping her Ignorant didn't you "Prime". You The Prime, what a joke, it should have been mine you hear me. The matrix, her, everything, I have no idea why they looked me over and picked a miserable little person like you for it."
"They knew," Optimus got out, "they knew what you were…"
"Well it doesn't matter now any way does it? Once I'm rid of you it will all be mine."
Optimus tired to say some thing but Axis tightened his grip a bit more. "OH and don't worry about her. I'm certain she'll enjoy being with me, after all she did the first time."
Most people have never ever seen Optimus Prime pissed off. It's a pretty scary sight believe it or not. I mean he is the matrix holder, and that means he's basically backed up by the will of a god. So you'd think messing with him wouldn't be a very good idea. Right then with that comment, Axis had crossed the line. Prime was officially pissed off and this time he wasn't holding back. He brought his knee up into the other's mid section and waited for him to bend over and let go. A few seconds later his dark twin went flying across the desert and left a very nice impression there. Optimus stomped across to him and now proceeded to get hold of him in the same manner he had been held. However he didn't stop to gloat. He let him have it and once again the dark one went flying.
As for Frankie, between the concussion and what she'd just seen and heard the barrier that had been put in place on her mind snapped. Images of a very long time ago suddenly filled her mind. Telling her what she had once been and what had once happened to both her and the others. More violence than most people ever experience in their lives hit the girl all at once. The past and the present collided and the realization was almost more than she could deal with. What had happened, what had been done was something that should never have been witnessed let alone experienced by any one, especially a woman. The fact that all of this had been in her mind, and soul for so long, just beneath the surface increased it more, as all of this hit her mind she dropped to her knees there on the dusty desert floor, gripped the sides of her head and screamed.
When she looked up and the screaming stopped she had changed. She took one look at the fighting brothers and tore her self across to them. Not really knowing what she was going to do or how she was going to fight she just did it. By that point Axis had managed to get him self up and was starting to get ready to attack again when she plowed into him, knocking him flat.
"YOU MONSTER!" she proceeded to back hand him, "WHY? Why did you come back!? Why couldn't you stay dead? Wasn't what you did enough!?" Again she back handed the dark twin. "You jealous bastard, WHY just because I loved him?"
She took a deep breath and slapped him again, "You had no right you monster! You had NO RIGHT!"
Optimus gapped for a second and then managed to get his hands around the girl as she lay into his twin.
"STOP IT!" He tugged her away from him, "Stop it! He's not worth it!"
She turned to face him, more and more of her past coming to the surface, "Don't stop me! Please don't, you don't know! You don't realize what he …"
Optimus looked at her, now closer to his own level, "Yes I do, but he's not worth it."
Axis managed to collect his own wits from this attack and looked back up at them.
"You miserable wench," he stood up and wiped the energon smears off his face, "Your going to pay for that."
She leveled her gaze at him, "You can't do any thing worse to me than what you have already done."
"Feh," darkness flared around him and he was gone for the moment.
She turned and looked back up at Optimus, " Rion?"
He put his arms around her and hugged her to him, "Ari', Oh Primus, I'm so sorry. I'm so very sorry."
She wrapped her arms around him and held on like a drowning woman, "Orion."
He held on to her, "How much… Do you remember now?"
"Everything," She answered softly.