The techno-organics

Chapter 19

"Nikolai!" Alabaster cheered in excitement and captured him in a white embrace. Wrapping him in layers of her hair like a present.

"Ally..." He gasped after air. "I can't breath." When she heard that she let go and so did her hair. The elevator doors opened and the ones occupying it came out, but it returned to the roof again to bring the rest. Wasp flew forward and landed on top of Nikolai's nose like an insect and hugged the bridge of his nose.

"Big brother is okay." He cheered and Nikolai fought the need to sneeze as Wasp tickled his nose.

"Yes I'm alright." He assured the youngest techno-organic and carefully placed his hands over Wasp in order not to squish him.

"I must say," Ratchet piped in, observing the hybrids that were now human sized. "It's odd seeing you all so small." Widow responded to his statement by putting her hands under her chin and smiling in an joking attempt to look cuter.

"Where are the rest of you?" Optimus asked.

"The elevator couldn't fit all of us, the rest will come soon enough." Flash said and corrected his glasses. Arcee didn't recognize him for a moment without his armor, but she knew his voice.

"Is that you Flash?" She asked and he answered by sprinting over and standing beside Arcee on another part of the platform. The elevator opened again with the rest along with the humans.

"Now that we all are here," Toni took the responsibility of speaking for the group. "We thought about going out and visit the town while you're fixing Canary." Optimus put his hands on his hips before speaking.

"I'm not gonna force any of you to stay, but I don't want any of you to attract attention to yourselves." Bumblebee said something and gestured over the left side of his face. Rock knew he was talking about him without translation and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, how are Rock going to blend in when he looks like that." Bulkhead said and further annoyed his techno-organic, making Rock put his fingers against his right temple.

"And don't forget Nikolai." Miko pointed out before turning to him. Nikolai removed Wasp from his nose and held the boy in his hand. "I mean, you look like a giant vampire, dude." Nikolai averted her gaze and held Wasp in his hands like a child holding a small animal.

"I'm not sure if I'm in the mood to go out right now." His shoulder slumped as he gently threw Wasp into the air, which made the boy quickly start to flutter his wings.

"It's okay if you don't want to come," Alabaster assured him. "We miss Ana too, but it'll only get worse for you if you sit here and do nothing. You need to get out and do something, and if you don't feel any better, I promise we'll let you lock yourself in your room for as long as you want and leave you alone." He thought about it for a moment. Truth be told he didn't actually want them to leave him alone, but with everything that had happened he figured he would only ruin the mood with his presence. He felt guilty for wanting to have fun without his sister, it didn't feel right. He needed to return and save her, not go sightseeing. Although, Canary was the only one who could find the warship.

Maybe they were right, sitting and sulking won't do anything good, before long it'll also affect his mental and physical state. How will he then save his twin. Nikolai didn't say anything as he put on his coat and took his saw, and engulfed himself in his own red light. In a few seconds he was smaller and wore his human colors. A wide smile spread across Ally's face as the other techno-organics cheered at Nikolai. Admiring him for staying strong. He leaped into the air and joined the others on the platform, landing gracefully like a grasshopper.

"Wow, that lady was right." Miko placed herself beside Nikolai. "You are hot." She said and grabbed his arm. He didn't mind and let the smaller girl do as she pleased as long as she didn't take it too far. Soon Alabaster also shrunk and the three Autobot guardians offered to give them a ride. They transformed and let the youths climb into their vehicle forms. Before the humans could join them Optimus waved them over and knelt before them.

"Understand that they are your responsibility when you're among humans, that means you have to remain a low profile."

"It'll be fine Optimus." Jack assured him. "I'm sure they can take care of themselves and until we found them they did a great job at staying under the radar."

"And we'll make sure that Alabaster don't get sunburned." Miko added as a joke which left Optimus in quiet confusion.

"I'll ask Ally to explain to you later." She waved it off before joining the others. Jack was surprised to see Flash sitting on Arcee.

"Hey," He called out. "I'm usually the one to drive Arcee. Why can't you just run next to us?" Flash ticked and hit himself on the chest. At this point he was to tired to repress any of his ticks so he just let them do as they pleased.

"I can't run without my armor, if I do, my clothes will catch on fire. And don't get me started on the bugs, thank God for giving me visors." He trailed off and kept hitting himself. Miko mentioned before that Flash had some neurological condition that made him move and make noises uncontrollably, therefor he didn't mind his movements. But he was somewhat concerned since those hits sounded painful. When he looked at Flash's hands he noticed that his knuckles was wrapped in bandage. Guess those hits did leave some damage.

"If that's the case then why don't you just put on your armor?"
"It takes a lot of energy and I'm really hungry. Do you have any places were I can eat?" Jack gave up as he took place behind Flash and held on before driving of trough the tunnel with the others. Ratchet turned to Rachel who was checking on a sleeping Canary.

"Don't you want to go with them?"
"No, thank you." She answered disinterested. "My work takes priority and while I'm sure you're an excellent medic, I doubt you have any knowledge about human anatomy and even less about techno-organic anatomy." Ratchet didn't deny and nodded agreeing with her. At least the base was empty until they all returned so he better enjoy the rare silence

Valkyrie groaned as she woke up. Her head heavy and her gaze foggy, she did her best to look around and see where she was. She noticed how numb her arms felt when she tried to move them and looked up to see them tied to chains.
"What the fuck." She cursed and started to struggle. She threw her body around, side to side, back and forth. Spitting curses in her mother tongue to anyone that could hear her, not that any of them would be able to understand her anyway.

"Scheisse, scheisse, scheisse, SHEISSE!" She screamed into the cell like a caged beast. "I never should have underestimated that tin can. DO YOU HEAR ME YOU CYCLOPE? WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE YOU BETTER PRAY TO ANY INTERGALACTIC GOD YOU WORSHIP BECAUSE I WILL KILL YOU!" Her tantrum was interrupted by a pounding on the door and a strange voice shouting at her to be quiet. She didn't care though and kept shouting, even going so far and threatening the stranger on the other side. No challenger came trough though as a numbing pain shot trough her. The pain stole her voice away as all her muscles tensed and the air became too thick to breath. Once the pain was gone her whole body unwillingly relaxed and she was left hanging like a piece of meat. Oh no, this is like living with the scientists again. How long were they going to leave her here? Don't leave her alone. The walls are creeping closer. The air is getting thicker, she can't breath. They're in space, right? She's running out of air, she don't want to be alone, she can't move, can't fight, can't think clearly. She wants to go home, to be with her family, to be with Wasp and rock and she wanted her dolls the most. And her hammer, where was her hammer? She needs her hammer.

'Please, don't hurt me.'

Gentle flames came to life in Freedom's hands and danced around each other as she laid on the berth in her room. She shifted a few times trying to feel comfortable, it was so hard and cold and she figured she'd get a number of back problems from sleeping on this. Maybe she could get permission to spend her nights in the cities. If that didn't work out she could smuggle up a blanket or two because this whole ship was ice cold.

Money was not a problem since it's always plenty of criminals in the cities she could steal from. The bigger the city, the more was the criminality and the more was the gangs. And the bigger the gangs the more money they had that she could steal. There was no way she would steal from a store or mug random people on the streets. They don't deserve such treatment and she's not going to lower herself to that level.

She reached to the roof and let another light show come to life from the tips of her fingers. Red orange and yellow blended together perfectly, painting the room in more colors than the gloomy purple and red that brought no warmth. She could only enjoy it for a moment before she groaned and hit the wall in a frustrated motion. She wanted her to be his apprentice? He certainly didn't have any fatherly intentions behind his decision. He was a egotistical maniac and probably wanted to keep her near in order to have more control over her. Like he didn't have enough control already by keeping her comrades hostages. Hopefully they could all forgive her if he made her do something horrible. At least she got to beat up Breakdown, that was fun. But she was never going to tell Valkyrie since she would start whining how only she has to right to fight him and how she didn't need anybody's help to beat someone.

She couldn't fall completely under his mercy and she couldn't let the Decepticons think they could bully her around. Megatron was untouchable at the moment, but she wanted to make sure that the crew knew that she was stuck with them just as much as they were stuck with her.

The Autobots dropped of the kids on the sidewalk before driving of. Jack promised to call when they wanted to get picked up or if something happened, but something happened really quickly. Once the Autobots where out of view, Toni flicked her fingers at the back of Jack's head. Which wouldn't have hurt so bad if only Tony didn't have metallic fingers. When Jack turned around to see what was the matter he noticed that Toni's blazer was gone.

"Why didn't you tell you lived in a dessert city." Jack turned to Alabaster that wore Toni's missing clothing.

"I need to buy a few things first. Can you show me if there are any stores nearby?" She asked and pulled down her sleeves so they better hid her scars.

Jack took out his phone and moved past Toni on order to show it to Ally. "There are stores nearby where you'll be able to buy everything you need, there is also a pharmacy if it would be needed." Alabaster memorized the map on his phone and started to walk, but was stopped by Rock that called out to her.

"Don't forget me," He lifted his hood without taking it off in order to show the green metal he was hiding. Alabaster smiled apologetically before bringing her hand to his face. A faint glow appeared before dying down and Rock took of his hood with a completely human face. Miko was the first to run forward and inspect it closer.

"Cool, how did you do that?" She tried to touch him but he caught her hand and asked her not to. Which she did with a slight pout.

"It's a simple illusion. It last as long as I want as long as I'm so close. But it's only optical, not tactic. So we all have to make sure no one touches you." Rock reached his arm out and patted her head.

"I can take care of myself," He said in a reassuring voice. "I'm not sensitive to sun like you, so you better go and buy all you need before you start looking like the way you did in Greece." Alabaster tensed and blushed furiously of embarrassment.

"Don't talk about it!" She threatened him but it held no effect with the company of her childish voice.

Raph offered to follow Alabaster and told the other kids to text their location. He grabbed Ally's hand and they disappeared around the corner. Once that was settled Jack turned to the rest of the group.

"Flash requested to go somewhere to eat and there's a fast food place nearby where I work at." Wasp giggled and turned to Flash who turned away slightly annoyed.

"Fast food for the fast one." He giggled at his pun and received a long deep sigh from Flash. Like he had heard that too many times already.

"But I don't have much money on me at the moment, so I have to ask you not to go too big when you're ordering." They were all quiet for a moment before bursting into laughter as they reached into their pockets and took out their wallets.

"No need to worry, chap." Toni insisted as her real accent slipped. They each reached into their wallets and took out a handful of American dollars. The humans was amazed at the amounts they each held, then the question appeared.

"How can did you get your hands on that much money? You live England, remember?" Widow chuckled and put a finger against her full lips.

"Let's just say that Canary have a talent for making rich people pay in large amounts, in order for her to keep their nasty secrets." So they're murderers, one's a pimp and now they can add hackers and blackmailers to the list. Better keep this information away from the Autobots or they would surely disapprove.

Once done eating they all went outside and met up with Raph and Alabaster who just made their way to the parking spot. Alabaster was dressed in clothes that covered more of her skin, her face was covered in sunscreen and a wide hat sat on top of her head. Toni's blazer was folded under Alabaster's arm as she joined the group.

"Thank you for loaning me your jacket." She said and handed it over.

"It's a blazer, honey." Toni corrected as she put it on.

"Whatever."

"Where do we go now?" Wasp tugged in Miko's stocking in order to get her attention. The humans turned to each other and discussed ideas. Maybe go and check out a few stores, go up to the mountains. The worst idea was when Miko suggested that they would take the techno-organics to one of their homes.

"Why don't we just take a walk and look around while we decide." Widow suggested as she pinched Raph's cheek, to which he cringed at.

"Jack, is that you?" The techno-organics was ready to get into attack position as they saw an unfamiliar girl walk up to Jack. The teenage boy put on a tense smile as she came closer.

'Of all the times Sierra could talk to me, why did she have to do it when I'm with a group of half-alien criminals? I'm sure that if they think she's a threat then they'll rip her apart.'

"Sorry to bother you, me and my friends saw these people and wondered who they were. It is a small town, newcomers aren't usual, you know." She explained and scratched the back of her head nervously. Jack peeked behind her and saw a group of students from their school looking at them. Among them was Vincent, the biggest jerk in town. Jack choose to ignore him for the moment while figuring out a believable lie. Before he could open his mouth to say anything, Toni had already stretched out her hand towards Sierra.

"Toni, a pleasure to meet you, love." When Sierra didn't immediately accept her hand Toni grabbed it herself and shook it. "Sorry for not introducing us earlier, we are all friends of these three from London." Sierra discretely made a few movements with her hand, wondering why Toni's hand had felt so cold and hard.

"Oh, are you all exchange students?"

"No," Flash was quick to correct that. Can't make the lie too big now. "We all met," Tick" online and decided to" Tick" finally meet in real life."

"What the fuck is wrong with you, weirdo." Vincent said as he decided to walk into their conversation. Flash instantly felt much smaller and hid humiliated behind Rock. To which the bigger boy turned and pressed Flash protectively against his chest. All of the other techno-organics became defensive and got a huge desire to hit him in the gut for making their brother feel bad.

"See you three finally made some real friends." He mocked the trio as he tried to put his hand around Sierra's waist. She was quick though to step aside and avoid him.

"Stop it, Vince. Even you know better then insulting strangers." The red head said to the bully.

"Seriously, don't you have anything better to do?" Miko backed up while Raph stayed quiet.

"Really?" He laughed, not believing what he was hearing and looked at all of their reactions. "Was I the only who heard the way he talked and saw how he keeps punching himself on the chest?" Flash buried his face deeper into Rock's hoodie and tried to force his ticks to stop. But he just kept going and it got worse, he shouted more, moved more and he couldn't control it. Why did people treat him like this? One of the benefits of moving in hyper speed was that he always could leave uncomfortable situations, but it was moments like these that made him feel trapped.

"He has tourettes." Widow stepped forward. Toni heard how it rustled under her jacket and was quick to grab her shoulder and shake her head disapproving.

"Never heard of it."

"Then maybe you should do some research." Nikolai growled and leaped forward, grabbing Vincent by the front of his pants. Everybody gasped at Nikolai's sudden action and didn't dare intervene. They were quick tough to cover the eyes of Wasp, Raphael and Ally. The bully tried to fight back but the Russian just squeezed harder whenever Vincent tried to raise his fist. Making him a squealing defenseless mess.

"Never talk to me or Flash or any of my friends again. And don't you dare come anywhere near these three, if you fail following those instructions I'll crush you balls so badly you'll spurt out blood instead of sperm. Understood?" Vincent answered the best he could in a voice that had become high pitched.

"Yes." Nikolai finally let go and Vincent fell to the ground gasping, holding his abused area.

"What the heck was that?" Jack yelled at him and grabbed Nikolai by his coat. He didn't say anything as he turned around.

"Just call the 'bots. I want to get home."

Translations:

Scheisse-Shit

Chap-boy