Me: (twitches and giggles like a psycho)
Optimus: Don't talk to her she may do it again.
Kicker: Do what?
Ironhide: Uh…he means don't say the word K…
Hotshot: DON"T!
Kicker: What? Kingdom Hearts?
Me: AAAAAAAAH! runs around in circles
Sora: See you made her do it again! Oh well at least I'm here for the story. (grabs popcorn)
Kicker: You're not even supposed to be in here!
Sora: So? cough Can't wait to see your butt get kicked. cough
Kicker: What was that!
Optimus: He said on with the story people.
Not exactly as planned
Sahara sighed and grumbled as she stared at the supposed energon filled temple in front of her from the underbrush she was hiding from.
"Geez." She mumbled. Her mother heard and nudged her daughter as a reminder to stay quiet.
"Remember the other group is to distract the Autobots so we can get the energon, so that means we have to stay quiet." Tana revised.
Sahara just rolled her optics. Suddenly the sound of roaring engines reached her ears. "They're here." She whispered with a hint of despite in her voice.
A few moments flew by even though it seemed like hours and still no sign of the Autobots or any humans for that matter.
Sahara could see the ambush group hiding in the undergrowth. They were all straining to stand stock still for they all knew that one little slip and it would all be over.
Then the sound of heavy footsteps reached everyone's ears. Sahara immediately ducked deeper into the undergrowth to have a lesser chance of being seen.
A giant metallic foot landed inches away from her face. "Sense anything Kicker?" a voice asked. Sahara carefully lifted a few leaves away for a better look.
The young human obviously Kicker came up front and looked around. Sahara was trying desperately not to run out and attack him which would give away the plan.
"Surprisingly I don't sense anything but I know that "they" are here." Kicker stated. The Autobots quickly raised their weapons as Kicker continued to look around
Sahara froze on the spot as she felt the human's eyesight on her.
The tension in the air turned so thick that they could taste it, as they waited for the other to make the first move. Every thing was silent and deathly still, it was as if time itself was holding its breath.
Suddenly Kicker jerked his head and his hair started to glow a golden color. "There!" he screamed pointing to the bushes where the ambush group was waiting.
Taking that as a signal the Terracons tore from the growth and attacked. "Darn, that kid!" Sahara hissed. Tana quickly put a paw over her daughter's mouth. "Shh, wait for it!" she warned.
Sahara watched miserably as fellow terracons fell at the guns of the Autobots.
'Never in my whole life will I ever forgive them for this.' She secretly vowed.
Kicker took a slash at a random terracon but it saw the attack and leapt out of the way just barely being missed.
What was left of the others started to run away from the temple where the energon was. The Autobots immediately started to follow. "Now!" Tana screamed as she and the others ran towards the temple.
Everything within was screaming at Sahara to run as fast as she could. Her spark was thudding like mad which only increased the importance and rush of where she needed to be.
Hoping they weren't seen she looked at the temple and the task at hand as she came up by her mother's side.
But as fate would have it they were seen. Kicker immediately whipped his head around as he sensed more Terracons and saw them tearing from the undergrowth towards the temple.
"They set us up?" Kicker asked immediately fuming. He leapt on to his energon saber and started to follow the group.
"Kicker where are you going?" a voice yelled on the communicator in his helmet. "They set us up Ironhide!"
"WHAT?" Ironhide said in disbelief. "I thought they were brainless." he said. "Yeah, well they're not as dumb as we thought they were." Kicker replied as he raced to catch up.
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A distance away the Autobots were busily trying to fend off the other Terracons.
Ironhide looked over his shoulder and quickly transformed and sped off to help Kicker. "Ironhide!" a voice called. "Where in Primus' name are you going?" "Sorry Hotshot, I can't talk now."
"Kicker found out that we were set up by the "not-so-brainless" terracons." Ironhide replied.
"WHAT!" "But…how…what…I mean?" Hotshot stuttered. "You took the words right out of my mouth, Hotshot, you took them right out." Ironhide finished as he continued to chase after Kicker.
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Sahara, Tana, and the others continued onward towards their destination. 'Not much farther." Sahara thought to herself.
Then a voice shrieked from the distance. "You can't run forever!" Sahara whipped her head around and saw Kicker on his energon saber following close behind.
Her mind immediately began to race as her anger began to rise. For once couldn't everything just go exactly as planned?
"Oh that son of…" she began. "SAHARA!" Tana quickly interrupted, giving her daughter a look.
Sahara glared at her mother but quickly dropped her sight. "Sorry." She muttered. "But how are we going to lose him?"
"I don't know we'll think of something." Tana stated. "Well we better think of something soon because I know that those…excuse my language…Autobutts are not far behind."
Sahara said hatefully.
Tana just gave her daughter another look and sighed.
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The group quickly ascended the long stairway and into the temple itself.
As soon as everyone was in Sahara screeched to a stop and whipped around turning towards the entrance. "What are you doing?" she heard her mother's voice screech.
"Mom, I can't just run and hide anymore." "If we are ever going to stop this war then someone needs to take a stand." Sahara replied without turning around.
"Meaning you." Tana said with hints of disbelief and hurt in her voice.
Sahara dropped her head in shame. "I'm sorry it had to come like this, but if any of us are to survive this then this problem needs to be dealt with."
The sound of Kicker's voice was heard from outside the temple. Immediately Sahara turned her head.
"Go, Mom there isn't much time!" She yelled. "But…" Tana began. "Please Mom go." Sahara begged. Tana just continued to stand there as her mind raced.
Sahara whipped her head back around as she saw Kicker's form pass through the opening. She snarled and unsheathed her claws.
Seeing the terracon, Kicker immediately drew his weapon up signaling he was ready to fight.
"This is going to be interesting." He murmured.
Sahara started to encircle Kicker as he watched her intensely; keeping an eye on her every move.
'There is no time to waste, I have watched too many fall from his hands.' Sahara thought.
She snarled and leapt at Kicker but missed as he dodged out of the way and managed to swing at her with his blade.
The tip grazed her side as she past, but she managed to withheld her scream of pain.
Again, Sahara charged at Kicker and managed to snare the side of his helmet and lost his balance because of it.
Once more Sahara jumped at the human and hit him full force in the back causing him to keel over but not without his sword grazing her face first.
As Kicker struggled to get up, Sahara landed and dashed off to the side then leapt onto the wall and used all her strength to push herself off again. Kicker only caught a glimpse of the terracon before he was smashed to the ground; a sharp pain quickly seeping up through his back.
Sahara stared at the human as he groaned from the pain. She would give the boy the same mercy as he showed her kind…which had been none at all.
She lifted her head and lunged at him with jaws open wide, but immediately stopped and roared with pain as laser beams crushed her back armor.
Immediately Sahara whipped her head around and saw the Autobot Ironhide standing at the entrance with his gun at point blank.
"Oh, Slag it!" Sahara roared as she leapt off of the human and gaining even more lasers to the body. She quickly ran down the hallway where her mother and the others had gone. She continued her pace for a few minutes.
Then a sudden thought struck through her circuits and she stopped. "What am I doing?" "I'm going to endanger everybody if I can't face my fears." She said a loud.
Once again she snarled angrily and waited for her enemies to show their sorry faces. This time she had the element of surprise on her for the shadows covered her dark form.
Then she heard voices and footsteps. "I don't really like this Kicker, I can barely see in front of my own face and there is a terracon running around." "And I know that there are more where it came from."
"Stop being such a worry wart… Ironhide and as for your mouth keep it… shut or the "it" will know where we are." Kicker said painfully.
Even though it was hard to see Ironhide still managed to give Kicker a scowl when he wasn't looking.
"Pain in the boron-com pressure." He muttered. "What was that?" Kicker hissed. Ironhide immediately smacked himself in the forehead.
"In your human language, your a…"
"SSHHH!" Kicker interrupted.
As she watched the two pass her, Sahara immediately felt insulted. "It?" "Is that all that I am, an it?" She bared her dagger fangs and moved up behind them melting into the shadows in the process.
"Hey Ironhide could you shed some light I can't see a thing?" Kicker asked. Ironhide snorted and raised a light on his shoulder lighting the path in front of them.
"Better?" He asked smartly. Kicker didn't reply but instead just walked on. Ironhide immediately gritted his teeth to keep himself from grabbing the kid as he followed.
Sahara watched and waited patiently for her chance. 'Why not have some fun with them first.' She remarked letting a soft growl erupt from her throat.
Ironhide heard it and immediately whipped around but saw nothing. "Kicker did you hear that?" he asked starting to feel afraid.
"Probably just the wind." Kicker replied without turning around. Ironhide angrily sighed.
Sahara secretly smiled and let out another growl. Again she got the same reaction from Ironhide.
"I'm telling you man I hear something." He said fearfully.
"Will you shut up?" Kicker shouted. Ironhide was immediately taken aback, but quickly shook it off and continued to follow, but purposely started to lag behind.
Kicker didn't seem to notice.
Sahara on the other hand was having the time of her life.
'And for my next act…' she thought.
"Tick, tock, tick, tock." "Time is running out for you…" she began her voice echoing into the dark nothingness.
Ironhide immediately cringed as he heard the voice toy with him.
"Who's there?" he asked The voice paused in mid sentence for effect.
"Someone who wants you out." The voice remarked.
Ironhide now shook all over as he tried to locate the source of the voice; the feeling of being watched pulsing through his system.
"Scaredy Cat, Scaredy Cat." The voice sang as it moved from place to place.
"I am not!" Ironhide said trying hard not to let his voice squeak.
His headlights reflected off of the bare rock walls; not even a shine of armor caught the protecting light.
Sahara smiled as the light passed harmlessly by her. 'Now for the real fun.'
Sahara slowly reappeared from the shadows as she made her way towards the scared autobot.
Ironhide slowly made his way down the pitch-black hallway wondering how Kicker could've seen through the darkness.
Again the feeling of being watched passed over him. Slowly he turned around and froze on the spot when he saw two bright gold optics staring at him from the shadows.
"Who…are…you?" he asked shakily not even trying to hide the fear in his voice.
"I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with FRIGHT! Sahara roared as she leapt at the fear-stricken Autobot.
Kicker, who had found small traces of energon, heard a muffled scream before it was quickly silenced by something.
"Ironhide!" he yelled hoping for an answer. No response. "Oh man." He said as his heart began to race.
After a few short moments he heard the sound of fast approaching footsteps. By the dim light from the energon Kicker thought he saw a form running towards him from the dark.
Then the form leapt at him. Kicker quickly ducked as the thing flew over his head. Upon the light Kicker could make out the form of Sahara with energon stained jaws.
"No…" he whispered and quickly raised his weapon again. "You murderer!" he screamed and lunged at her.
Sahara quickly dodged and started down the hallway once more. Kicker immediately followed.
Sahara panted as thoughts jumbled around in her head. There was something wrong with that human.
As he had accused her of killing his Autobot friend his eyes had begun to glow a bright green color. It was strange because when he first walked in his eyes had been a deep brown.
A brighter light started to flood from a hole in the ceiling of the temple but Sahara didn't take any notice of it.
No matter how hard she tried or hated him, she couldn't shake the feeling that this kid was in trouble and not just by her.
"Oh, Danstit." "Why do I have to be such a goody-goody all the time?" she asked herself as she skidded to a stop and waited for Kicker once more.
She knew that this time wasn't going to be as easy without the shadows to conceal her every move and an enraged human made it all the worse.
Kicker enraged to his limits burst into the light and locked eyes with the Terracon.
As Sahara stared at the kid a fear began to eat at her spark. Through his helmet she could see his eyes, glowing a bright green and some sort of black aura mixed with small hints of a light blue was thrashing wildly around his body like a giant snake.
"His spirit is weak." Sahara whispered. Then the black aura began to spread out amongst the walls, blocking the streaming light from outside and came closer to the terracon.
Sahara's optics grew wide as black, twisted and crooked hands seeped from the darkness and tried to grab at her.
She quickly dodged and tried to run down the hallway but the darkness barred the way out on either side. A horrible high-pitched screeching sound pierced through the darkness making Sahara cover her ears and scream in pain.
Fearfully the terracon looked back at the hatred filled human. "You will pay for what you have done." Kicker said in a voice that was not his own.
He rose his blade and charged. Sahara tried to move but for some reason couldn't get her legs to follow the rest of her body.
She screamed as the blade tore deep into armor. Another slice in her face made her fall to the ground but she painfully rose anyway.
'I'm not going down that easily.' She thought and lunged with open jaws.
Kicker swung his blade to deflect the attack but only caught a face full of metal claws as they dug themselves into his helmet.
He fell to the ground again as the terracon leapt off and landed painfully onto the floor.
Sahara winced as the hands tore at her again. 'Can he not see what he is doing?' she thought as she tried to bite the darkness.
Kicker quickly rose and felt something wet slide down the side of his face. He tasted it and realized it was his own blood.
'It just got lucky that time.' He thought hatefully and charged again. He succeeded in making a fine slash across Sahara's optics. She screamed as everlasting pain boiled into her mind as she covered her optics.
Her vision was now blurred as the hands tore at her again and again. "I can't last much longer." She said as she saw her own pool of energon beneath her feet.
Kicker was now breathing hard. It seemed as though something was sucking the energy right out of him but he could not see the culprit.
Sahara could though and the culprit quickly grasped its ugly hands around her throat holding her in place for the final blow. Tears streamed down the sides of her face. "Mom, I'm sorry." She wept.
Kicker let out a battle cry and leapt towards the severely wounded Sahara. Even though her vision was near gone she could still see the green eyes staring right back at her.
Those piercing green eyes filled with hatred that tore right at her spark. It was the hateful eyes of someone who wanted her and the rest of her kind dead.
Sahara closed her optics and awaited the blow. "I have failed."
A roar made Sahara re-open her optics just in time to see a blur leap from nowhere and stand protectively in front of her.
The figure screamed as it received the blow that had been intended for her, its roar echoed throughout the structure.
Sahara's optics grew wide as tears streamed from them.
"NOOO!"
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Everyone: OO
Me: I stink at fight scenes.
Kicker: You made me an ass.
Me: Yeah so? You were like that during the Energon season.
Kicker: But I'm not that mean.
Me: You're right.
Kicker: I am?
Me: Yeah, I didn't make you as big as the one you are now.
(Kicker immediately stands up and lunges towards me but is instantly held back by Sora and Ironhide.)
Kicker: LET ME AT HER! LET ME AT HER!
Me: I'm out of here. (runs off)
Kicker: Get back here you (censored) (censored)
Optimus: (sweatdrops) Just read and review.
