Circle Backwards: Part 5
Optimus pulled up at a specific spot and stopped. I sat there looking out of his windshield for a while wondering where this person we were looking for exactly was.
"So, your friend is around here some where?" I asked.
"The lift to his lab should be here," His cab door opened for me and I slid down, "Let me take a look around and see if I can find the way in."
So I stood there, once again noticing how bloody cold the planet was and waiting for either the door to show or the person to show. This kept Optimus' attention for a few minutes and so I was left alone. I found a place to sit down and kept watching and waiting for something to happen. I had just gotten comfortable when He reappeared.
"Hey," He motioned for me to come over, "I found it."
I got down and went over to where he was standing and indeed there was a large lift there. I have to admit I was a bit uncertain about riding the thing down into that shaft but it was better than being chased by the goon squad so when Optimus held out his hand for me I got on, and the two of us took the lift down. We took the lift down got off and stopped cold.
The reason the two of us froze happened to be a pack of what looked like teenagers or what ever Autobots called them, holding all of us at gun point.
"IS there something you forgot to mention to me Optimus?" I asked.
"Apparently so," He held up the hand that I wasn't sitting on and stared at the kids that were aiming at us.
Thankfully at this point some one came around the corner and saw what they were all doing. I heard someone behind them give a smothered laugh and then walk up into the light.
"Well Optimus," The new comer smiled at us, "I Suppose I should introduce my guests."
"That might be a good idea Alpha." He kept his hand up, "Or at least get them to calm down some."
I still was looking at the rather large firearms that were being pointed at us and just had to make a comment about it.
"Crap and I thought Earth Kids were hyper!" that's when it occurred to me that I had my hands up to.
The new person that Optimus had called Alpha laughed again and finally came into the light where I could get a good look at him. He looked like a mechanical version of a cross between Obi-wan from Star Wars and Gandalf from Lord of the rings, and he had the prerequisite wise old man grin plastered on his face.
"You must be Miss Angel," He held his hand out to me, "Welcome to Cybertron, My name is Alpha Trion."
"It's nice to meet sir, it really is." I made a motion over his shoulder, "But could you…?"
"Indeed," He turned back to the kids, "it's alright neither of them are going to attack us."
The one that was up front of the group, was the first one to calm down and lower his guns and take a good look at the two of us. He red and orange coloring and there was something about him that reminded me of Optimus for a few seconds, as he came to the conclusion that the two of us were who we said we were.
"Sorry about that," He held out his hand to Prime, "Shockwave has been harassing us a lot lately."
Optimus shook his hand and nodded to him, "Considering where the two of us came from, I can understand why you are being cautious."
The rest of the kids calmed down at this and we got introduced to all of them, who in turn wound up being completely and utterly fascinated by me. The fact that I was married to Prime didn't seem to bother them in any way, most of them seemed happy that he had found some one. They weren't the only one's that seemed happy about this either. The older one Alpha Trion seemed just as pleased that he had managed to move on.
Once the introductions were over Optimus and I wound up going with him into another part of the lab and the kids moved off to some where else in the base and we told him what had happened and how we got in this particular mess. Thankfully the dear old guy had a communications array and was more than happy to let us use it.
We wound up following him to the main com station and Prime got to work setting up the controls. This left me alone with some time to talk to him while I was waiting for the explosion that I knew would come once we got in touch with the ark.
"So," I looked up at him.
"What is on your mind Miss Angel?" He smiled down at me.
"Oh nothing much," I shrugged, "Just getting used to being some where completely different from home."
"Indeed," He nodded down at me.
I stopped talking and went back to watching Prime play around with the array trying to find the signal.
"You are truly in love with him," Alpha asked, "aren't you?"
"Very much so," I answered.
"I'm glad. I was worried that he would never be happy again." The older Autobot sighed.
Then he smiled down at me, "So I hear that you and your friend have managed to give Megatron a taste of his own medicine?"
"No," I shook my head at him, "After everything I've seen that he's responsible for I don't think anything I could do would ever be enough to get even with him."
"I see," He was quiet for a moment, "Well I am certainly glad that you are not taking any of this lightly my lady, but you have accomplished more than you realize."
"I suppose so," I shrugged, "Its not like I was trying specifically, I just..."
He smiled down at me and nodded again, "I understand."
I opened my mouth to say some more about this conversation when the predicted verbal explosion hit signaling that Optimus had gotten the communications array working and signaling who was on the other end of the thing back on earth.
"ANGEL!"
I winced visibly and walked over to look up at the screen. Just as I thought there was Alyssa, about to have a conniption fit down at the ark.
"WHERE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD ARE YOU?" She demanded.
"Where do you think I am?" I sighed.
She would have kept going if Prowl hadn't grabbed her and forcibly shoved her out of the way and took up the space at the com station.
"Well now that she's got that out of her system, would you two like to tell us if you are still functional up there?"
"Yes," Optimus nodded, "We both are."
"Good," The XO nodded to us, "What we need to do now is get you two back down here before anything else happens that puts you in any kind of danger."
"What else could possibly happen?" I asked, "We've been shanghaied, locked up, insulted, frozen…"
"Trust me Ma…" He stopped just short of the "mam" and noticed my glare, "Ahem, Sorry. Trust me Miss Angel, there are plenty of things that could still happen. For one thing we just got the report a few moments ago that Megatron is personally up there now looking for the two of you."
"OH that's just PERFECT!" I snarled.
Optimus looked down at me and probably would have shared my emotions if he could have in front of his troops, but managed to retain his composure for the moment.
"So Prowl, it's not really feasible for the two of us to try and get back across the space bridge."
"No that wont work," He agreed, "We'll have to send Omega to come and get the two of you."
"That's probably the safest thing to do at this point, Angel and I will wait for him…"
"AND ME!" Alyssa hollered, "Your NOT going up there unless I can go and kick her rump for this!"
Prowl proceeded to shove her out of the way again and finish telling us when and where Omega would be to pick the two of us up. It should have been simple as that unfortunately that was when all hell decided to break loose. Hell that started with an explosion sending everyone in the base running to see what was going on.
When we did finally manage to get a look out side I stood there and stared, gaping at the screen wondering just how things like this keep happening to me and mine. What was happening turned out to be Megatron, Shockwave and their goons standing there in the park we had been in less than a few hours ago. They were there and were methodically picking the place apart, solely for the sake of destroying it.
I managed to tear my eyes away from that and look up at Optimus. I looked up at him and I wished I hadn't.
