The techno-organics

Chapter 10

Alabaster jumped out of the swirling portal and once she landed and the groundbridge closed, she could not help but smiling and feeling good about herself. Despite the trouble she caused she finally got to meet her original, and some of the others to. She just hoped her sudden absence hadn't caused to much trouble. She better explain herself as soon as she gets home.

"So where do you guys live?" Alabaster turned around and saw Miko that had followed her.

"What are you doing here?" Alabaster asked as she started to panic. They had all agreed when they got here that they would never bring another human their hide out. She did not know how they would react but feared what they might do to her.

"I wanna meet the others. A whole family of alienrobot-human hybrids, that's a never in a lifetime experience." She answered excited and as usual, not seeing the bigger picture or the danger.

"No you can't, they don't like strangers." She warned but Miko ignored her and began to look around. She started to run out of the alley but was stopped by Alabaster that grabbed her by the waist with her hair. She brought the human closer to herself so they were face to face.

"You don't understand, we have a rule of not letting humans know where we live and Freedom don't like when we break the rules." She explained but Miko just rolled her eyes.

"What do you think will happen?" Alabaster didn't answer that question. "You introduce me to your friends, tell them I'm with the Autobots and..." She got an idea that made her grin evilly. "You had to leave the base in quit a rush and you barely got to spend time with your daddy. What do you say I tell you stories from the time I've known him?" Alabaster was quiet, thinking about if she should take the very attractive offer. She could accept it and take her to the hide out but that would put her in danger if the others decided to see her as a danger, but the others would also like to hear about their originals and that would make them spare Miko. She nodded in agreement and Miko let out a victorious "rock on". Alabaster still held the punker in her make shift tentacle and leaped into the air. The air was quickly stolen away from Miko, leaving her unable to scream as she suddenly flew through the air with wind screaming in her ears. Alabaster stopped at a rooftop to check her surroundings but noticed the girl in her grasp had gone numb. She moved Miko to rest on the ground.

"Are you okay?" Miko took a deep breath before weakly answering.

"Yes, I was just shocked." She took a few more deep breaths. For the first time she started to rethink the idea, but she just reminded herself that she had gone through worse and just told Alabaster to be more careful. Alabaster held Miko in her arms this time and leaped in a new direction. The whistling wind mixed with the chaos of the big city's noises was everything that could be heard as they flew. Miko raised her head from Alabaster's chest and looked down. It felt like her heart and lungs had dropped right into her belly. She clung tighter to Alabaster but started to notice that they neither fell or raised further into the air. They flew. It was then she noticed the blue shine Alabaster gave of. Coming from all over her and enveloping them both.

"Prepare for landing." She said and Miko buried her face in Alabaster's neck while steadily descending from the sky. Miko expected a sudden drop but Alabaster flew downwards in a similar fashion a plane does when landing. Slowly and carefully. It gave Miko opportunity to see where they were. She looked down and saw them flying towards a seemingly abandoned warehouse next to the river and close to the place where "the scarlet twins" had murdered three men. Alabaster landed right in front of it and dropped the girl who wobbled for a moment because of the chock. She looked up at the big building and shook of excitement, knowing that inside was the rest of Alabaster's family.

"Let's go." Miko walked forward but was stopped by Alabaster again who started to think twice. She looked at the building like it was a hunted mansion and not where she lived. She did not know how her friends would react to her bringing a human; and even if she had convinced herself so far that they would spare her, she really did not know what would happen. She was pulled from her train of thoughts as she saw a blue blur coming their way.

"Get behind me." She stepped in front of Miko as the blur came closer, stopping right in front of Alabaster before it could slam into her.

"Alabaster!" Flash cried out as he hugged her. "Holy God, where have you been? We have been looking for you. I have searched the whole UK for you, recently Toni and Widow came back telling some humans had been looking for you so Freedom sent me again to..." He suddenly ticked mid-sentence. He was about to resume talking when he noticed an extra pair of legs behind Alabaster. Before any of the girls could blink he had run behind Alabaster, grabbed the girl and placed himself in front of her again with Miko in his grasp. This took less then a second. Alabaster just suddenly saw Flash holding Miko.

"Flash!" She yelled, and before she could say anything else, he cut her of.

"You brought an human? Do you not remember our rule against bringing outsiders." He felt a tick coming but repressed it which resulted in a painful twitch. Miko, who didn't understand how she had moved so quickly, started to struggle and curse in Flash's grip. "Is this one of the humans that took you." Alabaster stared horrified knowing they all thought she had been kidnapped.

"She did not take me." She defended. "I was injured and they brought me too their place tend my wounds." It was hard too read Flash's facial expressions when he wore his visors.

"That's what happened." He relaxed a bit but not enough for Miko to escape. "But why are you bringing her here?"
"Because she's a friend of our originals. They are the ones that fixed me." She rolled her ankle to show of her bandage. Flash gaped, eyes turned at Alabaster but not looking at anything. Miko used his confusion to escape and ran towards Alabaster. When she turned to see who had caught her, she saw a dark skinned boy, somewhat shorter then Alabaster, dressed in cobolt armor plating including a helmet and a pink visor that covered his eyes.

"Holy scrap, you look just like Arcee." The boy stood unmoving except the ticks that came and went. Actually, the more time that went the more agitated he got and his ticks came more frequent. He was not prepared to not only find Alabaster but also a human that knew his original and that suddenly blurted out her name. He finally learned the name of his mother, but was not prepared for it. He started to yell random words, twitch and move uncontrollable.

"Is he okay?" Miko asked not knowing what happened to him.

"He's fine." Alabaster insisted. "He just have a neurological condition that makes him move and talk uncontrollably. It gets worse when he gets scared or thrilled." They waited out for him to calm himself before they started to talk again. He took a few breaths trying to repress his tick. As he started to get better a knot appeared in his stomach telling him that he had to realize it soon after they are done.

"You know my original?" He asked with a soft tone.

"Yes."

"Seriously, do you really know my mother?" He walked closer and hunched down to her eye level. "Or do I have a mother? Alabaster saw a blue female that apparently looked like me, but you can't know for sure."
"Yes, you are with no doubt her son." As soon as she answered, Flash started to jump around cheering repeatedly.

"Yes,yes,yes! I have a mother," He stopped for a moment and started to talk in a warmer voice. "And her name is Arcee." He hugged himself gently and thought about meeting her. Imagined how she looked like and how her voice sounded like. Miko watched him, surprised that someone as quiet and somber as Arcee would have such a loud and energetic son. But then again, Alabaster was the daughter of Optimus Prime and she was not a wise and mature leader like her father. He turned around again to meet the girls again. He stopped suppressing his ticks as the knot in his stomach started to loosen up

"You must stay and tell everything you know." He ticked. "We will all be so..." Tick. "Happy to meet someone so close to our..."Tick. "Originals." You could not see his eyes behind the visor but Miko knew his eyes was shining. The human girl turned around to meet Alabaster's gaze.

"Can we go in now?" She asked inpatient to meet the others.

"Fine," She answered before turning to Flash. "Go in and tell everyone that I'm back."
"Should I tell about where you were?"

"No, leave that to me." She answered and Flash ran inside. Alabaster led Miko to the entrance but before they walked in, Alabaster had to tell her a few things.

"Listen, we have a rule against letting anyone know about us and there have been times where we have needed to take drastic measures." Miko cringed, knowing what she talked about. She did not want to end up like the guys that led the Autobots to them."So, stay behind me and let me do the talking. Okay?" Miko nodded, but she knew herself and knew that in the end, she would not listen. Alabaster opened the door and on the inside it was almost nothing but a big open space with old furniture, tables, a TV and a corner that housed a slab and different kinds of mechanical tools and medical equipment; and of course the hybrids that waited inside.

"Alabaster!" One of them cried out and Freedom ran towards her to trap her in a embrace. She lifted Alabaster up and the Albino placed her legs around the bigger woman's waist like a child.

"I was so scared." The women cried and hugged Alabaster tighter, too focused on on her to notice Miko. "I thought we had lost you, that they took you from us." Miko watched the women that held Alabaster and tried to think of any resemblance to the Autobots.

"Who are you?" Someone asked from right behind Miko. The girl yelped and jumped to the side and saw a little boy standing right behind her. Freedom was brought back to earth and finally noticed the strange girl. She let go of Alabaster and took a threatening step towards Miko. Alabaster quickly placed herself between and explained that she brought Miko.

"What?" Freedom exclaimed. "Why did you bring her?" And the others also started to get aggressive.

"I didn't just disappear, I took a walk but some of my stitches tore and I was too injured to get home. She and her friends helped me." She started of before dropping the bomb.

"But why doing something so stupid and show where we live. Couldn't you just say "thank you" and call it a day?" Valkyrie asked visibly upset and readied her hammer.

"Because the ones that healed me was our originals." There was a heavy silent over the building. No one dared to say anything, nobody knew longer what to do or say. They all just stared without looking at anything. Miko felt uneasy by their stares, she turned and looked past Alabaster to see if the other women still intended to throw her out. And when she finally got a really good look at her, Miko was stunned. She was gorgeous.

Miko's gaze wandered over her a few times just to take in her beauty. She had the darkest and most beautiful skin color Miko have ever seen. High cheekbones along with a diamond shaped face that gave her a very mature look without making her look old. And a tall athletic build with well sculpted muscles that would make most boys in her school jealous. Long black curly hair with subtle silver highlights that draped over her shoulders; and she had stunning amber eyes that went well along with her thick eyelashes. An African warrior queen was the closet comparison Miko could think of.

"You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." Miko cried out in excitement and stared like mesmerized. It seemed to wake everyone from their stunned silence and Miko snuk past Alabaster to look closer at an already flushed Freedom.

"What's your name?"

"Freedom." She answered above a whisper. She was so embarrassed she had to turn her face away and hide it behind a hand for good measures.

"Alabaster mentioned you, she called you the leader of your group." Freedom moved her hand so she could throw a glare towards Alabaster, but quickly returned to her bubble when Miko started to throw questions.

"How strong are you? What powers do you have? Can you also fly?" Freedom finally had enough and waved her hand for Miko to stop. Freedom groaned and straightened herself as she looked down at the girl who had started to observe the others. Before she could walk closer to the others Freedom grabbed her by the back of her shirt and lifted her up in front of her.

"What should we with her?" She asked the others and they all turned to each other and discussed it like Miko was a stray cat that Alabaster had dragged in. Flash sped up and snatched Miko from Freedoms grasp before any decision was made.

"Come on, Freedom," He pleaded and Freedom gave a sharp glare, at the same time as she cursed herself for not being ready for that.

"This girl..." He turned towards her and waited for her to share her name.

"Miko."
"This girl, Miko, know our originals. We shouldn't just throw her out. We have all wondered where we came from, who our parents are, how they are like. I mean, we don't even know their names but now's our chance to know." Miko looked up at him, moved, and unsuccessfully trying to imagine herself in their position. But was interrupted by Alabaster that appeared beside them.

"But it doesn't end there, before I left they told me to talk to you and ask if you wanted establish contact with them. Not to join their group or fight alongside them, just to make a friendly alliance."

The twins finally reached the bridge of the warship and was met by stares from basically every Decepticon in the cold room. The troops none moving faces turned towards them as they kept walking towards the waiting titan. Knock Out stood right next to them as he announced their presence

"Ready to talk now I presume." He whispered as he turned towards them. Out of the twins sight Knock Out gave a confirming nod and stepped aside. He remained close but just so their prisoners wouldn't do anything. He was not vain enough to think he could take them on, but he was sure they would get less likely to attack if he was in the room. He had already learned that lesson when Nikolai was given the opportunity to get his chainsaw and attack but choose otherwise.

"It would surprise us if you brought us here without that intention." Anastasia rolled her eyes and looked displeased at her handcuffs. Megatron's face stayed neutral, unfazed by the twos disrespect.

"Though I must say you Decepticons have really poor manners. Tying up your guests is very impolite." She raised her hands with a half smile, requesting them to be removed.

"We found you when you created a storm with those hands. They will stay on." He answered dryly as she lowered her gaze in defeat.

"But to the matter at hand," He started as he took a step closer to them. They stood unmoved with neutral faces as got closer. "We don't want to wage war with your kind, we want you to join us." He smiled showing of his fangs. If this was any other situation, if this was someone else asking them this they would have laughed in their faces, but no. This was no fun in this, instead where they filled with rage.

"Join you?" Nikolai exclaimed in disbelief as Anastasia's cuffs started to give in to the growing energy she suddenly started to produce.

"We stayed hidden this long just to stay away from another pair of clutches who want to abuse us." It was not the reaction Megatron had preferred but it was the one he expected.

"I understand perfectly. You saw what we can do, you saw that my sister is a weather witch and that we are both basically immortal and now you want to expand your collection of weapons by adding us. No thank you." They turned around to leave but was stopped by a bunch of vehicons pointing their blaster at them. They both got a clear reminder of the situation they where in and threw a glance at each other. Like they were asking each other what to do next.

"You misunderstand," The warlord stated and they could almost hear his mocking grin. "I am not as savage as those who created you. I am simply giving you and your comrades an opportunity to use your abilities to good use." The twins turned to face Megatron again. He reached out with his servo in a nonthreatening way and removed Anastasia's cuffs with a push of a button. "To fight for the Decepticon cause. Not as slaves or prisoners but as allies." They both shared a doubting glance before they spoke. "What do we get out of it?" Anastasia asked suspiciously and rubbed her wrists. Megatron held one of the tiny circle saws Nikolai used to defeat his troops.

"You seem to have talent of making weapons." He remarked as he observed the tiny weapon. A weapon that had dug trough the armor of his soldiers, faster and more precise then a swarm of scraplets could.

"Join us and not only will you be able to see your "original" whenever you want, but you'll also have all the resources to build even more weapons and even more advanced than what you already accomplished." Nikolai's eyes shined up as he heard the offer. He did love to build and invent, and now he was about to be given access to everything he needed to expand his work. It was a dream come true. But then again he had to think of the consequences. The twins turned to each other to have another silent conversation before they answered.

"If we join you, will you leave the others alone?" They asked synchronized.

"I can't promise that, but I can assure you that if we encounter any of them we will try to inflict as less damage as possible." He flashed a chilling smile and reached the saw to Nikolai. The boys gaze moved between Megatron and the weapon before he looked around. The troops were still pointing their blaster at them, but when he looked at his original; Knock Out nodded towards them, encouraging them to take the offer. He finally turned to his sister who nodded as well. Nikolai reached out and took back his weapon as he stared Megatron in the eyes.