Hey guys, well, I might update one more chapter this week, but if I don't, I'm sorry! I have to get a book read my Thursday, so all my free time will be put into that! I could finish earlier and get one up, but I don't it cuz school weeks are hectic and I only get chapters done cuz of Study Hall! Sorry again!
Disclaimer:That guys over the explained to me that I don't own Transformers. Well, way to burst my bubble dude. I'm gonna go buy some trash bags, bleach, rope and a shovel. So, yeah. Enjoy!
Oof, rereading that Authors note above is making me cringe. Honestly rereading all of this is kind of embarrassing. So. Many. Grammatical. Errors. I really hope there's not as many now. I've only gone over each chapter like three times! Anyway, I'll let you get to reading.
Chapter 7:
Sam and I were taken to a nearby facility where we were stuffed into some random room with no windows, a single door, and a table with four chairs. We took a seat at one end while we waited for the questioning to begin. Neither of us dared to say a word, both of us already assuming we were being recorded.
Hours passed slowly but no one came back in. I wondered just what their game was. Were they trying to break us by keeping us locked in this room? I wouldn't let them see my fear or anticipation. I would not break.
Meanwhile my fear for Bee's predicament grew steadily as time ticked by. Who knew what kind of heinous experiments and tortures they were doing to my Autobot brother. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. I wanted to break out of this room and kick every government guys ass until I saved my friend.
The door suddenly swung open and we were ordered to follow them. "Just where the hell are you taking us?" I demanded to know but they ignored me.
They marched us up some stairs and unto a roof, where a helicopter was waiting. Two other individuals were being escorted like us, though they lacked the handcuffs. We were directed in their direction. Before we climbed in, they took the cuffs off us. I rubbed my wrist when I took my seat and put the headphones on.
The helicopter took off less than ten minutes later.
We all sat in silence for a moment, as if we were all trying to gather our thoughts. I studied our companions. One was a young woman with curly blond hair and tan freckled skin. The other was a heavy set, dark skinned man with glasses and a nervous gleam in his eyes. "So..." The guy began awkwardly, though he trailed off. He looked unsure of himself. The girl decided to finish. "What'd they get you for?"
"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot."Sam replied, shrugging a little. Both of them looked slightly awed. "Who knew?"
They looked at me expectantly and I shrugged. "I've known the Autobots my entire life, they're my family." I turned away then and looked out the window. I could feel the tears forming and I tried to blink them away. Now was not the time to cry.
Sam exchanged a few more words with them. They introduced themself as Maggie and Glenn. Maggie was an analyst who had discovered the Decepticons when they tried to hack Air Force One. Glenn was a hacker that Maggie had gone to when she was completely stumped by the code the Cons had left behind. I listened to what they said, but made no effort to join in the conversation.
We flew for what felt like an hour. Sam was fidgety beside me, clearly just as anxious to find out what our fate would be as I was. Our companions looked nervous as well but they didn't have the same fear as we did. They clearly had more knowledge of what was going on than Sam and I.
The helicopter finally landed on a platform behind a brick building. We were ushered off the copter and directed towards a parking garage. We were loaded into another black SUV, though this time without the handcuffs thankfully.
This drive wasn't nearly as long as the last one. Soon enough we were pulling over. Sam and I were surprised to discover that we'd been brought to the Hoover Dam. I wondered what exactly was going on here. Why were we arrested and brought here and not some federal black site prison.
I exchanged a look with Sam before we both walked over to the edge of the dam. It was honestly an amazing sight to see, it was such a long way down. I shuddered at the thought of falling from this height. That would hurt.
Sam and I turned away and walked to where Simmons was standing. Seeing him again brought up an eruption of fury and disgust. This guy stole me away from my family and friends, all with zero remorse, and he had the nerve to greet us as if we were old friends. When he stated that we got off on the wrong foot and started offering us food or coffee, I felt myself snap.
"Food? You think food would make up for you kidnapping us? And Bee? Where the fuck is he? No, you need to take us to our friend right now." I exploded.
Sam grinned. "What she said, now where is my car?"
"I need you two to listen to me very carefully. People can die here. We need to know everything you know. We need to know it now." The guy beside Simmons practically demanded. From the way he carried himself, and how Simmons practically cowered beside him, I assumed this guy must be in charge. Perhaps he was the leader or director or whatever of whatever it was Simmons was a part of.
"Okay. But first, I'll take my car, my parents. Maybe you should write that down, oh and my friend Mikaela Banes, her juvie record that needs to be gone. Like, forever." Sam stated without blinking. I held up a fist and he bumped it without looking away from the two men.
"Come with me. We'll talk about your car." The director or whatever finally sighed.
"Thank you. " Sam and I said simultaneously.
I heard Simmons mumble something under his breath as we passed, but I couldn't make out the words. I noticed a group of soldiers standing at attention to the side. I looked at them curiously. They looked as if they'd just come from a battle and each had a haunted look in their eyes.
As soldiers I'd imagine they'd seen plenty of horrible stuff depending on how active they were in the field. However this was more than just the usual horror, they'd seen something that was beyond their imagination. Something that probably wasn't even human.
Deceptions.
One of the soldiers, a man with brown hair and friendly blue eyes, looked up and met my gaze. He tilted his head curiously but I guess something in my eyes showed him that I understood what he was feeling. I'd seen the Decepticons as well. I fought for my survival and barely made it. I was just a civilian but I knew what monsters now hid in the dark.
He nodded at me, a show of understanding and respect. Something told me that when it came down to it, this guy would be an ally. Sam and I desperately needed as many of those as we could get. I smiled at him as we passed them, which he returned. Then I focused back on the mission at hand.
"All right, here's the situation. You've all had direct contact with the NBEs."The director was explaining as he led us through the building we'd just entered. Someone asked what an NBE was.
"Non-Biological Extraterrestrials. Try and keep up with the acronyms. What you're about to see is totally classified."Simmons said as they lead us into a heavily guarded room. It was crazy to think that I, a 16 year old girl, was being shown classified government secrets.
However what I saw in that room sent an icy stab of fear down my spine. Standing in front of me was a Decepticon that scared me more than anything else in this universe. Optimus had told me so many stories about him, just hearing his name would have my heart racing. Seeing him in person, even if he was in stasis lock, practically paralyzed me with terror.
It was Megatron.
"Dear God. What is that?" I turned to the source of the question, if only to be distracted by the nightmare in front of me, and was slightly shocked to see the Secretary of Defense. I wasn't big into following politics but I'd seen him talking on the news a time or two.
"We think when he made his approach over the north pole, our gravitational field screwed up his telemetry. He crashed in the ice, probably a few thousand years ago. We shipped him here to this facility in 1934. We call him NBE One." Simmons explained casually, as if he weren't talking about one of the deadliest creatures in existence.
I just stood there in horror, not able to speak for fear of completely losing it.
"Well, sir, I don't mean to correct you on everything you think you know, but, I mean, that's Megatron. He's the leader of the Decepticons." Sam corrected with ease. I was thankful that he only knew a little about the horrors this Con had brought. If he knew what I did, would he be able to stand there without shaking in fear like I was?
"He's been in cryostasis since 1935. Your great-great-grandfather made one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind. Fact is, you're looking at the source of the modern age, the microchip, lasers, spaceflight, cars, all reverse-engineered by studying him. NBE One. That's what we call it." Simmons informed smugly, undeterred by Sam's knowledge. I really hated this guy.
"And you didn't think the United States military might need to know that you're keeping a hostile alien robot frozen in the basement?" Keller asked. The director explained that, until recent events, there was no credible threat. I snorted at that, there'd been danger since the moment this guy was discovered. They'd just been in the dark. "Well, you got one now. So why Earth?"
"Because of the Allspark."I finally broke my silence. All eyes turned to me and he asked what that was. "It's this giant cube thing. Megatron," I shot Simmons an annoyed look, "That's his given name and I wouldn't forget it, destroyed the Cybertronian home world in his quest to find this thing, killing millions of his own people. If he gets a hold of the Allspark, he can use it to transform our technology into his own little minions and destroy our home as he did theirs and kill off the human race."
"That's their plan. And you're sure about that?" Simmons asked me, looking more serious than I'd seen him this entire time. For once, he was actually listening.
"I've known the Autobots practically my entire life. I trust them with my life. They told me his plan and I believe them." I looked over at Megatron and shuddered. "We're dead if we don't get the Allspark to them. The Decepticons are coming, we can't stop them. We can only pray it's not too late."
"Yeah. You guys know where it is, don't you?" Sam asked, his eyes flickering between me and Simmons/the director.
"Follow me. You're about to see our crown jewel. Carbon dating puts the Cube here around 10,000 BC. The first Seven didn't find it until 1913. They knew it was alien because of the matching hieroglyphics on the Cube as well as NBE One. President Hoover had the dam built around it. Four football fields thick of concrete. A perfect way to hide its emergence from being detected by anyone or any alien species on the outside." A member of Sector Seven was explaining as he led us through the building and into a room with a large glass window.
I was mesmerized the moment my eyes first landed on the Allspark. It was beautiful. It practically hummed with energy and even through the window I could feel it's power. This was the object that brought life to the Cybertronian world. It was their most important
"Wait, back up. You said the dam hides the Cube's energy. What kind exactly?" Maggie asked, breaking me from my stupor. I tore my eyes away from the cube and looked inquisitively at Simmons.
He met my eyes. "Good question." He led us out of this room and crossed the hall. We were all ushered into a small room with only a glass box hooked up to some kind of laser machine in the middle. The walls were littered with nasty scratches that cut deep into the steel. "Please step inside. They have to lock us in."
"Oh, wow. What's that? Freddy Kruger done been up in here or something?" One of the soldiers asked. I was now close enough to read their name tags, his was labeled as Epps. I looked over to the soldier from earlier, he was Lennox.
"Oh, no, man. Freddy Kruger have four blades, man. That's only three. That's Wolverine!" Glenn laughed. "Right? That's Wolverine!"
No one joined in and his laughter quickly died.
"That's very funny. Anybody have any mechanical devices? Black Berry? Key alarm? Cell phone?" Simmons asked the room. I pat my pocket but my phone is long gone. I no doubt lost it sometime between the fight with Barricade at the warehouse and my near fall to the death on the interstate.
"I got a phone." Glenn grumbled, unimpressed with the lack of response from his Wolverine comment.
He pulled a Nokia cell out of his pocket and handed it to Simmons. "Nokia's are real nasty. You've got to respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai." Simmons explained as he stuck the phone into the machine. "We're able to take the Cube radiation and funnel it into that box."
There was a bright light that zapped into the box and I gasped when the phone transformed. My eyes widened in wonder at the little bot inside, it was a sparkling. Sparklings were basically infant Cybertronians. Optimus once told me that Megatron had ordered the destruction of every sparkling and femme early in the war. He spoke of how all the hatcheries had been blown up, killing nearly 10 million sparklings. It was the darkest point of their war.
"Mean little sucker, huh?" Simmons grinned, entertained as the sparkling tried desperately to escape their prison. He couldn't see the fear in her optics.
"That thing is freaky!" Maggie exclaimed and I couldn't help but shoot her a glare. How would she react if she were in the poor things position?
"Kind of like the itty-bitty Energizer Bunny from hell, huh?" Simmons added.
"And how the hell would you feel if you woke up on a glass box with strange alien beings staring at you?" I hissed before swatting away a button that I somehow knew would cause the Sparklings death. Simmons shouted at me to stop when I reached for a hatch that I knew would free her. "She's just a baby. " i growled at him.
I noticed the others stepped back, the soldiers grabbing their guns and pointing them at me. But I wasn't afraid, not of them and certainly not of her.
The sparkling stopped shooting her little gun when she saw what I was doing. She tilted her head curiously at me and her red eyes faded into a bright blue color. She chirped curiously before hesitantly stepping closer to me.
"Come here girl, it's okay. I promise I will protect you." I looked up and glared at Simmons. "From all threats."
For a moment, Simmons actually looked afraid of me. Good.
She finally crawled into my hands and looked deep into my eyes. I knew deep in my heart that she was trying to bond with me. I wasn't a Cybertronian but I knew in that moment, I adopted that little girl. I brought her close to my chest, hugging her softly. "You're safe, little one." I whispered and gently kissed her helm.
She chirped again before closer into the hem of my shirt and nestling into my bra. It was… certainly an odd feeling. But it also felt like she belonged there.
I looked over at the others and held my head up high. The soldiers began to relax and put their weapons away. "How did you know?" Lennox asked, looking at me with amazement. My eyebrows furrowed in confusion and I asked him what he meant. "How did you know she was just a scared baby?"
I smiled gently. "I told you I've known them my entire life. That makes it easy to read their emotions. I could see the fear in hers. She came into existence in a room where weird alien creatures were glaring at her. Her flight or fight instincts were activated. Did you notice how her optics switched from red to blue?" He nodded. "Well she sensed the safety and the love I had for her. She knew I was good and kind and that she could trust me. That meant she could relax and really take in her surroundings. I think she understood that I would protect her."
"What do you mean you've known them your entire life?" Epps asked. He looked wary of me but I didn't blame him. This whole situation just seemed far fetched and no one knew what to expect or how to react.
I bit my lip. "That's kind of a long story." There was suddenly a loud noise and the whole room shook. "But there's no time for it. The Decepticons know the Cube is here."
Simmons glared at me. "You can't keep that thing. It's government property."
"Excuse me?" White hot anger boiled my blood at his words. "She is not property. This little girl is a baby, my baby. You will not fucking touch her. Take a step near me and I swear I'll break your fucking arm." I warned venomously.
He and a few men who worked for him stepped towards me. Sam instantly placed himself between me and them. "You're not touching her again. " Sam growled.
Lennox then joined him, one hand touching his gun to draw it quickly if need be. "From what I understand, this girl knows more about that baby robot than you do. So stand down. " he warned Simmons.
Simmons narrowed his eyes before stiffly nodded. The door opened once more and we were led down a corridor. He and the director were shouting orders to the people around us. They took us to a hanger where a bunch of weapons were located.
Sam and I approached Simmons while he was getting a gun together. "You got to take me to my car. You have to take me to my car. He's gonna know what to do with the Cube." Sam tried to explain.
"Your car? It's confiscated."Simmons said hurriedly.
"You can't confiscate a living being, asshole. You're holding him prisoner. He's the only one who can help us now so you need to take us to him. Now." I practically demanded. I was so down with his bullshit.
"We do not know what will happen if we let it near this thing! You don't know. Maybe you know, but I don't know." Simmons shrugged as he turned away from us and tried to walk away.
"You just wanna sit here and wait and see what happens?" I snapped as I ran after him. Why couldn't this guy just understand what was happening. Bee was our only shot. We needed to get him to the Allspark like yesterday.
"I have people's lives at stake here, young lady." Simmons spun around and glared at me.
Suddenly, and without warning, Lennox and his men attacked. They easily disabled Simmons men and held them at gunpoint. "Take them to their friend!" Lennox growled. He had grabbed a fist full of Simmons' shirt, holding him against the hood of a car, with a gun pointed at his throat. Lennox shot me a quick wink before turning his glare back.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Drop your weapon, soldier."Simmons said. "There's an alien war going on and you're gonna shoot me?"
"You know, we didn't ask to be here." Lennox informed. He didn't seem to care that another guy had a gun pointed at him. He'd picked his mission and it was to help Sam and I in any way necessary. I was amazed with how willing the other soldiers were to follow his lead. They were a unit.
"I'm ordering you under S-Seven executive jurisdiction." Simmons tried to say, but they weren't having any of it.
"S-Seven don't exist." Epps piped up, looking annoyed. Lennox nodded, his glare sharpened as he said, "Right. And we don't take orders from people that don't exist."
"I'm gonna count to five. Okay." Simmons tried one last time to get control of the situation. I rolled my eyes. He literally had a gun to his throat, a trained soldier wasn't threatened by anything, let alone this asshole.
"Well, I'm gonna count to three."Lennox cocked his gun and pointed it at his chest. Time seemed to freeze for a moment and I held my breath in anticipation.
"Simmons?" Defense Secretary Keller suddenly spoke up, a hard look in his eyes.
"Yes, sir?" The man in question asked without losing eye contact with Lennox. Keller informed him that he should just do as the soldiers say, considering that losing wasn't really an option for "All right. Okay. Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool." Simmons backed down reluctantly.
Lennox backed away and the others did too. Simmons adjusted his shirt before he led us to a new room. Before we even sprouted foot inside, I could hear Bee tortured cries of pain.
My heart clenched and I rushed in with Sam at my heels. We shouted at them to stop, both of us wrestling the gas cans from people's hands.
The men looked to Simmons for guidance and he gave them a tiny nod. They all stopped spraying him and backed away.
I felt something brush against my skin and realized that the sparkling was shaking in fear. She must have felt Bee and I's distress. I reached a hand up to cradle her, ignoring the fact that it probably looked like I was holding my boob. "Shh, it's okay sweet spark." I whispered reassuringly to her.
"They didn't hurt you, right?" Sam was asking Bee. I knew they had though and my blood boiled at the thought. I glared fiercely at Simmons, who actually took a step back in fear.
Of course, it probably didn't help that Bee had sat up and was pointing a cannon threateningly at the others in the room. "Listen to me. The Cube is here and the Decepticons are coming." Sam tried explaining to Bee, but he was still in defense mode. He hopped off the table that he was tortured on and continued pointing his weapon.
"Bee." I spoke calmly, which caught his attention. "It's okay brother. They won't hurt you anymore, I swear it." Bee looked into my eyes as he weighed the words I said. "I promise you, everything is okay now. Please Bee, the Allspark is here. We need to go."
Bee nodded and retracted his weapon. He offered me a hand and I willingly climbed into it. "What are you doing?" Lennox called out, alarmed.
"It's okay, Bee would never hurt me. Now let's go." I assured them. Everyone hesitated a moment more before leaving this room and walked to the one that housed the cube.
During the walk, the sparkling popped her head out of my shirt and chirped curiously at Bee. He looked down at her, his optics widening in amazement. I knew Bee was one of the youngest Cybertronians alive, at least he was before my little one. I smiled warmly. "Bee, I'd like to introduce you to my little sparkling. She doesn't have a name yet but I already love her with all my heart."
Bee chirped at her, which had her giggling. It warmed my heart to see her so happy. She seemed to like my Cybertronian brother.
He arrived in the hangar with the Allspark. Bee walked up and stopped right in front of it. He took it in, optics shining with pride. For so long it had been his mission, with the other Autobots, to find this one special artifact. And now he was here, he had found it.
"Go on Bee. You've done it." I grinned. Bee nodded and reached forward to grab it. The cube sparked with energy. I felt it run through me and I closed my eyes. I welcomed it into my heart, it was home.
The cube shrank, folding itself down into a miniature version of itself.
I left a strange warmth in my right hand and when I looked down at it, I nearly gasped in surprise. A jagged scar, one I had had for eleven years, seemed to almost glow. I remembered when I had gotten it, the night I first dreamt of the Autobots. I traced it as the color faded back to white.
Bee offered me a ride on his shoulder, which I accepted. Then he followed the others into the hanger where the cube was. He reached up and touched the cube.
"Message from Starfleet, Captain. Let's get to it." Bee said through the radio, an urgent glare on his facial plates.
"He's right. We stay here, we're screwed with Megatron in the other hangar. Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that Cube out of here and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city." Lennox immediately took charge. Simmons agreed with him for perhaps the first time. "But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force. This place must have some kind of radio link. Yes. Shortwave, CB."
"Right, yes."
"Sir, you got to figure out some way to get word out to them. Let's move!"
I didn't pay attention to what they said after that. Bee gently lowered me to the floor and handed me the Allspark so he could straighten up and transform into his Camaro form. I buckled up the cube in the back seat before joining Sam up front.
Bee took off and down the highway with the soldiers following behind us. We drove for several miles before I noticed some familiar looking vehicles passing us. My heart thudded in my chest when I saw a familiar looking red and blue flamed peterbilt.
"Optimus." I whispered as they did a u-turn and joined our procession. Just like that, I knew we were ready for the upcoming battle.
(Yeah! Two chapters in one day! You guys are so lucky! Haha! I hope you liked it! I still have more surprises that have yet to come, so even though the final battle is almost upon us, doesn't mean the story is almost over! R&R!)
Next chapter is battle time! Woo! Please let me know your thoughts on my rewritten story. Thank you.