Hey guys, sorry for the late update. Just having some problems, you know how it is. Plus I've really been into these two Transfics. If you wanna read them, PM or review asking and I'll tell you. But they were really good. Like, I can't stop reading, stay up late good. Anyway, hope you like this chapter!
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So we got another major change coming up in this chapter. Hope you still like it though because I do.
Chapter 6:
After we got the glasses from Sam's kitchen, we followed Sam into his living room, only to get a huge surprise. Several men in black suits were in his house and a couple of them were interrogating his parents. We all exchanged panicked looks before coming into view. As soon as they could see us, we tried to act as innocent and ignorant as possible.
"What is this?"Sam asked as he came up behind his parents.
One of the men who was talking to his parents smirked cheerfully at him. "How you doing, son? Is your name Sam?" His whole attitude reeked of arrogance, I immediately did not like him. Sam answered that he was, but I could hear the hesitance in his voice. "Well, I need you to come with us." He informed Sam while stepping closer.
Sam's dad jerked him back behind him, right between Mikaela and I. Mandy stood on my other side, glaring defiantly at the suit guys. "Whoa, way out of line." Sam's dad said, glowering at the men. The man then asked 'politely' for him to back off. "You're not taking my son."
"Really? You gonna try to get rough with us?" Suit guy grinned, as if that was what he really wanted. I really did not like this guy nor the situation we somehow found ourselves in. Sam's dad then threatened to call the cops, calling the whole thing fishy. "Yeah. There's something a little fishy about you, your son, your little Taco Bell dog and this whole operation you got going on here."
Sam's parents exchanged looks, probably wondering what the hell was going on. I was slightly worried that these guys knew about the Autobots, but how could they? They just arrived on Earth. Another man approached us and whispered something to the agent who was trying to take Sam.
The man gave him a look before saying something back. I wished I could hear them but I was too far away. The suit guy then looked over at Sam and asked him to step forward. I grabbed Sam's shoulder and glared defiantly. "Just who the hell do you think you are, coming in here and giving orders. We have a right to know why we're being interrogated." I sneered at him.
The suit guy just gave me a look. "Young lady, this is bigger than anything you could possibly think of. I promise you if you don't cooperate, you'll find yourself in a federal prison, locked up tight for the rest of your life. Now like I said son, step forward."
Sam grabbed my hand and nodded at me. "It's okay, Jenny." He assured me before releasing my hand and stepping forward. He swallowed nervously when the suit guy used some kind of scanner on him. The machine buzzed loudly the closer it got to Sam's body. I knew that that wasn't good.
"Fourteen rads. Bingo! Tag them and bag them!"
The men surrounded us and one grabbed my arms roughly and folded them behind my back. I heard a click and knew he had handcuffed me. "What the fuck are you doing, let me go." I growled and tried to squirm free. The guy who held me was strong and just pushed me forward harshly. I lost my balance and fell to my knees. "Ow!"
"Jenny!" Mandy shouted. She head butted the guy who held her, causing him to release her in surprise. She ran towards me but was jerked backwards by a different suit guy. He pushed her towards the front door. Two guys grabbed me under my arms and pulled me up. They dragged me out of the house as well.
"If you hurt my dog, I'll kick your ass!"Sam's mom was yelling as she fought fiercely against the men. Sam's father warned him not to say a word until they got a lawyer. They were being pulled in a different direction than us.
I was pushed into the same car that my three other friends had been put in, and believe me when I say we were squished together. The suit leader was sitting in the passenger seat while another drove. Mandy, who was on the other side of Sam while I was beside Mikaela, frowned worriedly towards me. "Jenny are you okay?" She asked.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." I glared at the back of suit leader's head. "Just a little pissed off is all. It's a little disgusting how willing these guys are to assault underage girls."
Suit leader turned around to face us and smirked at me. "I told you to comply. We don't want to get rough but we will. Now then, Ladiesman217. That's your username right?" He looked over at Sam.
"Yeah, but, you know, it was a typo and I ran with it."Sam said, obviously embarrassed. While the name was a little derogative, he was a teenage boy so I didn't take it personal. Mikaela and Mandy both looked a little annoyed, though that could just be because of our current situation.
"What do you make of this?" Suit leader asked before playing a recording on Sam's phone. "My name is Sam Witwicky, okay? And my..." The recording started before he paused it and asked, "Is that you?"
"Yeah, that sounds like LadiesMan."Mikaela responded, irately. I guess she was taking the username thing a lot harder than I was. I had a feeling she might be starting to like him, but she feared he might be like every other arrogant jerk she'd dated in the past. Honestly though, Sam was nothing like those guys. He was really awkward, sure, but he was super sweet and seemed to genuinely like her.
"Last night at the station, you told the officer your car transformed. Enlighten me."
"Well, here's what I said, okay? 'Cause this is a total misunderstanding that my car had been stolen... from me, from my home, but it's fine now because it's back! It came back!"Sam tried to explain. I rolled my eyes and elbowed him in the gut
"Not by itself, obviously. Cars don't do that. I guess whoever stole it just wanted a joy ride or something." I added, to which Sam quickly nodded in agreement.
"That's funny. That is so funny." Suit guy looked like he didn't believe us but he started laughing. We all joined it, albeit nervously. You could practically cut the tension in the air with a knife. But then he stopped suddenly, expression serious when he asked, "So what do you kids know about aliens, huh?"
"Oh, you mean, like a Martian? Like what, E. T? No."Sam asked while shaking his head in disbelief.
"Clearly it's an urban legend. If they were real, I'm sure the government wouldn't be stupid enough to cover it up. People would riot if they ever found out." I lifted an eyebrow questioningly. I wasn't completely sure if these guys were government or not but I had a feeling they might be.
"Look, if this is what this is about, then you just need to drop us off right now because we don't believe in aliens." Mandy spoke up. "Honestly this has to be an invasion upon our rights. You arrest us without giving a cause and now you're going on about something as crazy as aliens? This is fucking ridiculous."
"You see this? This is an I-can-do-whatever-I-want and-get-away-with-it badge." He said, pulling a badge from inside his jacket. I could just barely make out a name, Seymour Simmons. "Right. I'm gonna lock you up forever."
Mikaela rolled her eyes. "Oh, God. You know what? Don't listen to him. He's just pissy 'cause he's got to get back to guarding the mall." She said, glowering at him.
"You, in the training bra, do not test me. Especially with your daddy's parole coming up." Simmons sneered. My jaw dropped in surprise. Not because of what he said, but how he said it. This guy really wasn't afraid. And if he knew something serious about Mikaela's past, after just meeting her, what else did he know? Did he have inside knowledge on all of us? Who were these people?
"What? Parole?"Sam looked over at Mikaela, who refused to look at him and just muttered that it was nothing.
"Oh, grand theft auto, that ain't nothing?"Simmons asked.
"Are you fucking serious right now? This is none of our business and it's ridiculous that you're here telling us. Isn't there some kind of law to prevent that? Mikaela is a minor and you're sitting here blabbing about her past. Can you even question us without our parents consent considering we're all underage?" I spouted off question after question, now seething in anger. Beside me I could hear Mikaela explaining why she had a past but I wasn't listening. Instead I had a fixed glare on Simmons.
Simmons simply presented his badge again. "Young lady, I am above the law. Now I'm done arguing with you, it's time to talk. Or would you like to rot in jail for the rest of your natural lives."
Before I could retort, I was momentarily blinded by a flash of white light coming in through the windshield. Simmons and the driver were yelling back and forth at one another while the car swerved dangerously.
Suddenly a giant hand crushed in the roof and I felt a bubble of fear burst in my chest. Could it be a Decepticon, had they found us? I felt a moment of weightlessness as we were lifted in the car, then crashed back to the ground sans roof. I shielded my eyes from the bright light, but when it faded we were greeted with the sight of my heroes, Optimus and the Autobots.
I snorted. "You assholes are in trouble now." I grinned smugly. "Might I introduce you to my best friend, Optimus Prime."
Optimus stood, looking as regal (and dare I say handsome) as ever. My heart thudded with excitement and longing. I reached over and opened the door from the other side and then peeled away from my momentary prison. Optimus bent down and offered me his hand as I approached and I gladly climbed on. He noticed the handcuffs on my hands and he surprised me when he growled. Ratchet approached beside him and he used some kind of tool to get them off of me.
Then he stood up and glared down at Simmons.
"Taking the teenagers was a bad idea." Optimus's voice boomed and I saw Simmons flinch slightly, though he didn't seem surprised. My alien friend realized this as well and questioned him about it.
"Look, there are Seven protocols, okay? I'm not authorized to communicate with you except to tell you I can't communicate with you." Simmons said. He had his arms up in a surrendering motion, but Optimus wasn't buying it and demanded he get out of the car. "All right. Me? You want me to get..."
"Now!"
I was kind of surprised by Optimus' harsh tone. I could see an almost cold look in his eyes while he stared Simmons down. However, whenever he looked at me, it instantly melted away. I shivered at the intense stare he gave me, butterflies fluttering in my stomach.
"All right, I'm... I'm getting out. I'm getting out. You see? Very nifty how you put us down without really killing us."I heard Simmons blabber as he practically fell out of the car. Sam, Mikaela and Mandy did as well.
"Are you alright?" Optimus asked me quietly.
I smiled reassuringly at him. "Yeah, I'm okay. These guys are jerks but I didn't let them rattle me. I knew my Optimus would come and get me. We still have the glasses." I winked jokingly at him.
Optimus grew serious then and brought me closer to his face. "I would have saved you with or without those glasses, you know this right? You are too important to me and my fellow Autobots. No harm will ever come to you if we can prevent it. You are one of us and we protect our own."
My breath caught at his words. Optimus was always good at leaving me breathless when he spoke this seriously. I knew how much I meant to them, but hearing him say it like that? It left me feeling weak at the knees. My face flushed and I swallowed nervously. "I know Optimus, believe me. And I would do the same thing for you guys. I may be no taller than your finger, but I would move heaven and earth for you." I promised him as I stared into his bright blue optics.
"... Not you, young man!" The sound of Simmons practically yelling broke our moment and I looked down to see the other three were also uncuffed and Sam was interrogating Simmons.
"How'd you know about the aliens? Where did you take my parents?" Sam continued his line of questioning, not phased by Simmons outburst. But Simmons just told him he wasn't at liberty to discuss it. "No?" Sam lifted an eyebrow before pulling Simmons badge out of his pocket, ignoring his threat of federal offense, and chucked it far away. "Do-whatever-you-want and-get-away-with-it badge, right?"
"Yeah. Brave now all of a sudden, with his big alien friend standing over there." Simmons said to his comrades.
"Where is Sector Seven?" Mandy growled, clearly just as annoyed as Sam. He still refused to answer but he shouted in surprise when something hit the back of his head and he was assaulted by fluids that Bee released.
"Bumblebee, stop lubricating the man." Optimus ordered while I couldn't help but burst into laughter. Though he tried to be stern, I could tell Optimus was just as amused as I was.
"Get that thing to stop, huh?" Simmons said, shaking his head. Bee did as ordered, albeit reluctantly, before Mikaela stepped forward and told him to take it off. "What are you talking about?
"Your clothes, all of it, off."
"For what?"
"For threatening my dad."
"Little lady, this is the beginning of the end of your life."Simmons began to pull off his clothes. "You're a criminal. Let's face facts. It's in your gene pool." He practically threw his belongings to the side, his eyes never leaving her face. Mikaela never faltered from his gaze, though she was just as entertained by his superman undershirt and aloha underpants. Once he was finished, she directed him and the other guy to get behind the pole.
"This is such a felony, what you're doing." The driver guy said. Simmons then threatened to hunt us down without any remorse.
I looked up at Optimus. "We need to get out of here now, these guys have no doubt already found a way to contact help." I warned him. He nodded but before he could reply, we heard one of the bots yell that there was incoming. I shot Optimus a worried look, but he was in leader mode. "Autobots, roll out!"
The bots transformed and peeled away. Optimus leaned down and offered his other hand to Sam, Mikaela and Mandy. He put the four of us on his shoulder before running away from the scene of the crime. I held on tight to a smokestack, praying that none of us would lose our grips. It was an awfully long way to fall. I trusted Optimus to get us to safety though, all we needed to do was remain calm and follow his orders.
Optimus carefully climbed under a bridge to hide. I swallowed when I looked down, beneath us was hard concrete that could kill us in an instant. "Easy you four." He warned us. A helicopter flew beneath us and I tried not to imagine falling towards their deadly blades.
Then I noticed Mikaela was beginning to slip. Sam grabbed her hand and tried to pull her up. "No! No! No, Sam! Sam, don't drop me! Sam, don't! Sam, don't! I'm slipping! I'm slipping!" She shouted fearfully. I flew forward and grabbed her other hand, effectively pulling her up and beside me.
Unfortunately the momentum used to pull her up meant I lost balance. I shrieked in fear as I lost my grip and fell head first towards the ground. Sam tried to catch my hand but instead he lost his grip as well and began plummeting as well.
"Jenny!" Mandy shouted as she held on tight to Optimus and Mikaela.
"NO!" Optimus shouted in horror. He couldn't reach for us without falling from the bridge himself. He needed to hang on for Mandy and Mikaela. He thrust his legs forward in an effort to catch us. Instead, my back slammed into the metal, taking my breath away. I saw stars but couldn't react fast enough to grab something.
I saw my life flashing before my eyes. "OPTIMUS!" I screamed in terror but he could do nothing but watch in horror. The ground was getting closer and closer and I knew my death was imminent. "OPTIMUS I LOVE YOU!" I screamed and I prayed he understood just what I meant.
I closed my eyes, missing his reaction to my words, and braced for impact.
It never came. I gasped when a hand enclosed around me and Sam, saving us from our fate. For a moment we were in the dark, but we felt it when Bee landed hard on the ground. He gently set us on the ground and my eyes instantly searched for Optimus. I couldn't see him though, he was gone. We were being surrounded by helicopters and black SUVs. Men jumped out and began spraying something at Bee that caused him to cry out in pain.
Time seemed to slow around me. "BUMBLEBEE!" I screamed as Sam shouted at them to stop. Cables came out of the helicopters and attached to my Autobot friend but he did not fight back. He knew he couldn't, not without hurting the humans.
I barely felt the handcuffs click into place on my wrists for the second time that day. I fought fiercely against them when Sam broke free and attacked one of the guys spraying Bee. They held me tight though and I was pushed away from the scene. "Let go of me, you asshole!" I screeched, no avail.
They led me and Sam over to a smug looking Simmons. "Why are you doing this, he's not even fighting back." I practically demanded as tears streamed down my face.
"I warned you, didn't I?" Simmons grinned triumphantly. I couldn't help it, I filled my cheeks up and spat directly into his face. That wiped the smirk off his face. "Put her in the van." He gestured to the vehicle.
"Fuck you." I growled as I was forced into the back seat. Sam was already in the seat next to me. He was staring at his hands blankly and I noted the look of fear in his eyes. I wondered if I had the same one in mine. This was serious now. There were too many humans around us now, Optimus couldn't save us without hurting them. He now needed to deal with the bigger threat, the Decepticons.
I could feel my heart breaking though. I didn't know if I'd ever see him again. We were officially in the hands of the US government and I had no doubt that they planned to deem us traitors to the country. I might never see Mandy or any of my friends again.
With the rigid way Sam was sitting, I knew he was having the exact thoughts I was.
I didn't know what Optimus thought about my declaration and it killed me inside to know I might never know. Just what was going to become of Sam and I? Was our life that we knew it at an end? Was it worth it for just one single day with my Optimus and the other Autobots?
I knew deep in my heart that it was.
(Again, sorry for the late update! I love all my reviewers! Please R&R! It makes me sooo happy!)
So yeah, different. I decided to save Optimus's reaction until later. I love dragging angst out, it's my favorite! You'd know that if you've ever read my other Transformers story, With a Wish. It's still a work-in-progress that I hope to eventually finish. The plot bunnies are making me write this right now though. So yeah, leave a review to tell me your deepest, darkest thoughts about my little rewrite.