Subi: Oo I'm posting the 14th chapter in the same day as 12 & 13? It's almost an update frenzy... >>; I hope I get reviews for this...


14. Demands

"Where is the sword?" the sparking shadow before her demanded, it's pink optics flashing furiously. Alexis pulled away from it the best she could, biting back a whimper.

"I don't know what you're talking about..."

"You lie, now where is it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Alexis shouted sharply, feeling her own optics flash. "I don't know what this sword is, much less what it looks like! If I say I don't know, I don't know! I don't know! Now let me go home!"

"Sorry, sweetheart. You can't go anywhere until we get the sword," the black and orange mech on the other side of the room told her. "We need the sword, and we know you're supposed to have it; So why don't you have it?"

"... Was that supposed to mean something?" She asked, blinking at him in confusion.

"By the Allspark..." The mech said, putting his face in his hands. The shadow hissed and took five zigzagged jumps over to him. Alexis waited a moment before glancing around searchingly. I need to get out of here... I don't know what they want from me, but I know I'd rather be with mom and dad... or Uncle Optimus or Uncle Megatron... She thought. Yet even as she thought about her family, Hot Shot's encouraging voice floated through her mind. She looked around again and found a broken window not far from where she was. Glancing back at the two bots on the other side of the room she quietly stood up and walked closer to the window.

"Maybe she really doesn't know where it is... There's no way to tell where the sword went since it disappeared twenty-nine million years ago... How could she have gotten it to begin with?"

"... You ought to be asking the Chaos Bringer- not me, Noizemaze."

"Well, he isn't here, now is he?" the orange-black bot snapped back. Alexis examined the windowframe and decided if she transformed she could fit through it. She took another glance back at the two mechs, noting that they were arguing with each other rather than paying attention to her. She looked back at the window.

"..." She stared at it for a moment, weighing her chances of escaping compared to staying. She found herself fingering the gold necklace Hot Shot'd given her for her birthday a two weeks ago. Hot Shot... I want to be able to see you again... Making her decision she took one last look at her two kidnappers before transforming and flying out the window at a lightning speed.

"What the-?" One of them began.

"Slag!" The other shouted. A moment later there was a loud crash behind her as a black and orange stealth-jet broke through the frame of the window and chased after her. "Get back here!" It shouted at her.

"I think I outlasted my visit," Alexis told him as she dodged around him as he flew past. "I'm going home," She added, and with that shot closer to the ground and flew a few feet above the pavement as she raced him down the street in an attempt to lose him...


She really wasn't doing a good job at avoiding him; It seemed that everywhere she turned he was there and attempting to make her crash to the ground. Alexis had tried looping around him, spinning away from him, even pushing herself to her frame's limits of sheer speed on a straight path to escape him. By Primus, why can't he just leave me alone and let me go home? I don't even know what he wanted in the first place! She thought, fighting back tears as she flew past more damaged buildings.

"Get back here!" Noizemaze yelled, trying to ram into her again, only to have her twist around and flash down another street. "..." He spun around and followed her, using his "warp system" he learned from Vector Prime nine Cybertronian years earlier to catch up with her fleeting form. "And just where do you think you're going?" Noizemaze growled as he drew even with her.

"Home!" She cried, and fell back sharply and was suddenly behind him.

"What the-?" He began, breaking off as lasers suddenly slammed into his afterburners. "ARG!" He yelled as a shot tore through his right wing, sending him spiraling into a nearby building. Alexis flashed past and around another corner, once again heading lower for cover.

Muttering and swearing under his breath, Noizemaze attempted to pick himself up only to discover himself entangled in a massive amount of powerlines and broken wall-framework. "Slag!" He snarled, and pulling a dark-orange, two-bladed sword began to cut through the wires holding him. Sideways raced past in the solid form of a purple, yellow, and grey motorcycle, cackling as he saw his brother entangled in the ruins of a building.

"Slag you!" Noizemaze shouted after him, slashing at the last remaining wires that held his right arm in place. Sideways merely laughed more and zipped around the corner after the fleeting shadow of the small seeker...

Alexis continued to dodge around buildings and turn down random streets after she'd shot down Noizemaze. Behind her, she heard the engine of a small, light vehicle following- and to her horror, gaining- on her. She considered going higher where it would be harder for the mech chasing her to see her. Before she got gained more altitude however, the mech fired a few shots, and one hit her wing. Biting back a scream, Alexis transformed and landed on her feet. Without even a backwards glance, she started running; dispite the growing feeling that it was futile to try to escape. Several shots rang out and she let out a yelp as she felt something rip through her ankle. Crashing sideways to the ground, she struggled to a sitting position, moving her hand down to the damaged circuits.

Alexis looked up sharply as she heard the sound of a bot transforming, and found Sideways a few steps away from her with a long, black sword in one of his hands.

"I'm going to ask you one more time," He growled threateningly. "Where is the sword?"

"I don't know. I just want to go home," Alexis whispered, looking at him fearfully.

"Then... You leave me no other choice," Sideways said, grasping his sword's hilt and bringing it back over his shoulder. Alexis suddenly realized what he was going to do and put both of her arms up in a weak defense against the oncoming blow. She shut her optics off as the sword began its lethal swing downwards...

"NO!" ... ... ...


Subi: Oh noes! What will happen to Alexis? n-n ... Is this good yet? Oo? Do I get reviews for a build in events?... Any kind of reward? Reviews preferred... please?

Shiori: Nooooo! Alexis! ;-; Why do you have to be so evil? ...

Subi: Uhm... Cause it's me? Oo;

Shiori: True...The pain is already unbearable... My daughter! ;-; They'd better review for Alexis's sake!... (thinks: even though I've been slacking... ; ... :going to go fix that: )