The techno-organics
Chapter 3
"You really gotta be more careful with your limbs, Toni." Rachel whined as she adjusted the prosthetic leg on her table. Toni scratched herself guilty on the chin and smiled awkwardly as she explained.
"Sorry, but last night one of my girls got an unwelcome visit from her former pimp and he was going to hurt her. I had to help." Toni held the area under her knee where her leg should have been.
"Aren't you technically a pimp too?" Rachel asked and replaced some damaged gears from the legs inside.
"I'm a nice pimp." She defended and put a hand on her chest. "My girls where beaten, assaulted, treated as property and had to give away almost all of there earned money to there pimps. I, on the other hand, offers them protection and better work environments in exchange for only 10 percent. That, I must remind you, is some of the money we are able to live on." She smiled proudly and looked at her stump. Toni was a tall and lean girl who was often mistaken for a boy for her looks and attitude. She did it because not only was it her preferred style, but she also enjoyed making people confused about her gender.
"Yeah, I know." She admitted as she finished her work. "It just bothers me that you come here every day with new injuries that I have to take care off." She put down her tools and rolled over to the slab Toni was waiting on. Toni took her leg and fastened it to the little magnets that was bedded in her flesh.
"I keep telling her that I can do that part of the job just fine but she keeps getting into more fights." Widow said as she glided into the room and took of her fur coat to reveal her extra arms.
"I'm just happy that you have kept them away from your face. You are too handsome for a black eye." She flirted and hugged Toni's arm.
"I don't want you to get into fights because I'm scared you might get hurt. I'm here several times a week having to fix my limbs, you're all flesh and blood. If you get hurt it will hurt a lot and I don't want some big monkey with a gun touching you." Toni stroked Widows chin with the outside with her hand before moving her thumb gently under her eye. Rachel sighed before interrupting them.
"Did you see anything suspicious while you where out? You know that cybertronians can transform into vehicles." Widow raised her head from Toni's shoulder before she answered.
"No, I don't think so." She looked away and started too talk unsteady. "I hope not." She started to shake like she stood in the cold and Toni put an arm around her and pressed Widow protectively against her body.
The twins was drinking in a nearby pub and talking about today's event. They where known for being borderline crazy and very impulsive, but mixing alcohol in their systems and there was no doubt something dangerous, stupid or crazy would happen.
"Can you believe it? It's so unfair that Alabaster got to see our original before us, right?" Nikolai shook his sister who almost slept on the cold surface of the bar.
"Yes, I wish we could meet him, but that would make Freedom and everybody else pissed at us." The bartender came up to them and took away their glasses.
"You two get pissed like children." He joked and filled their shots.
"We are actually children, chronologically speaking." Nikolai blurted thoughtlessly and the bartender started to get worried.
"We don't look like it but we are actually less than three years old." The bartender locked at Anastasia big bosom and just took it as the blabber of two drunks and walked away.
They both looked out over the bar at what looked like nothing, but it was actually something only they could see and it was a sign that they better go home.
"Nik..." She hiccuped before she could finish his name. "We should go, that lamp have been talking with me for the last two minutes." During their days in imprisonment they were regularly injected with chemicals and electrocuted, which have left their minds damaged to such a degree that they would occasionally hallucinate and hear voices. A big problem in the wrong circumstances.
"Yeah, and a pink elephant have walked past that window five times." They left a pile of money on the bar and held onto each other as they walked out and onto the streets. It was dark and it was dangerous for people, especially women, to be out late. Nikolai held onto his sister harder as they walked by the alleys and fought the urge to throw up behind nearest dumpster.
"You know, Ana? I got an idea." Anastasia locked up with blurry eyes and gripped at his vest to not fall over. "What if we also tried to find our original?" Anastasia heaved herself up and looked at her brother with empty eyes as she asked a confused, "what?"
Nikolai placed her on nearby bench and joined her before he kept sharing his drunken idea.
"What if we tried to find him to, but we avoid making Ally's mistake and just take a look for ourselves." Anastasia's common sense was far too gone for her to realize how dangerous the idea was, or she just didn't care.
"Keep talking." She encouraged him.
"They are probably only looking for Ally, so they won't expect us and that gives us an opportunity to find them and possibly see them all up close." Anastasia rested her head on her brothers shoulders and said, "That's probably the most dangerous and idiotic plan you have ever come up with." She was quiet for a moment. "We should do it." They made a weak high-five before they heard laughter behind them and it sobered them up.
"Well what do we have hear? Two lovebirds cuddling in the middle of the night?" A strange voice said with evil intent in his voice. Nikolai turned around and saw three men with guns and covered in tattoos.
"You got it wrong, she's my sister."
"Twin sister, to be more precise." Anastasia who now was sober from the seriousness of the situation stood up from the bench and threw a glance at her brother who answered it back.
"Oh, I see the similarities now. I guess that means that you probably don't mind her going with us for a moment." He flashed them a knife but they didn't even blink. After all they have been trough, knifes was just as dangerous to them like a single nail was to a big tree.
"Yes, I do mind." She spoke and exaggerated her Russian accent in order to sound more intimidating. And flashed a smile she actually tried to hide.
The gang walked closer and the one with the blade held it against Nikolai's throat as the other two grabbed Anastasia.
"Did you really think you can fight all of us, you drunk ass Russian?" Faster then he could react Nikolai grabbed the delinquents blade and stabbed himself in the throat so blood ran out in big amounts. The crook threw himself backward and his companions let go of Anastasia.
"Yes, I do think so." He said as the wound closed up and he reached inside his long red coat to take out a big chainsaw.
"Because you just walked into the lions den." The sister taunted and their appearances started to change. Their skin became white as chalk, their hair turned a darker shade of red and their eyes turned black and red. Anastasia clapped her hands together and when she separated them, red lightning was caught between them.
"Run!" The sister hissed and that was the beginning of a night that would end in a bloodbath.
"You saw another alien, that's so awesome!" Miko cheered from where she sat on Bulkheads shoulder. Jack sat on the stairs with Raphael and still processed the new information their guardians had told them. Information that Miko obviously had no problem knowing, since she started to blabber about how much she wanted to see the new alien.
"How did she look like?" The twelve year old boy asked Bumblebee. Bee beeped and made noises only the Autobots and Raph could understand.
"What did he say?" The older boy asked, who secretly shared Mikos excitement.
"He said she looked like a teenage human girl," Bumblebee filled him in on the details, "But she had extremely white skin and hair and..." Bee said something while extending his eyes with his finger so they looked bigger. "And she had really big eyes that was also unnaturally blue and glittered." Raph translated as he did the same gesture with his eyes and Jack chuckled.
"The way you are describing it make it almost sound like you saw an elf." The three Autobots didn't say anything but staring confused at the boy. Uncomfortable with their stares he started to explain what he meant.
"An elf is an mythological creature that is said to live in the woods and have magical powers." The Autobots oh-ed synchronized once they understood.
Meanwhile in another part of the base Optimus was still thinking about the girl. Something about her gave him a sense of familiarity, like he have seen her before or should know her. But he knew he hadn't seen her before. And he did not know how, but he knew somehow that she was not another extra terrestrial. She was human, or perhaps parts, and she had said that she was there to talk to him. Why? And why did he have this nagging feeling in his spark that made him miss her? He did not know her, why was he missing her so badly then? Like he needed to know she was safe, needed to see her strangely adorable face.