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Chapter 28:
(? Normal POV)
Pain was the only thing she recognized as her optics onlined. Pain that she had been in since her ship crash landed on Earth, only for the Decepticons to show up and kidnap her and the rest of her family. She didn't know where she was or what happened to her family.
Her optics onlined completely, though she was still dazed, as she looked around the room she was being kept in. She was chained to a table, dried up energon caked all over her body.
She coughed, a sound so scratchy and painful. The room was dirty and dust floated freely in the humid air. No windows and one door, shut firmly and more than likely locked and guarded. The femme at the table cursed her luck and cursed the war going on around her. She and her family were neutrals, not interested in the war that was destroying their race.
But of course they would be dragged into it somehow. All they were doing was trying to find a planet with enough energon to sustain until they could find a more permanent place of residence. When they saw this planet was full of energon signatures, they of course came right here. They weren't expecting there to already be Cybertronians here, especially not one's involved in this dreaded war.
She sighed as she rested her head back on the table. Moving too much would be a bad idea. She was injured enough. Plus, she had heard stories about a Decepticon mech named Scalpel who could torture someone to death, then revive them to torture them more.
If she was gonna have to deal with that, she might as well not agitate her injuries more. Of course, that was until the door open, then she went rigid in fear.
The black Decepticon leader walked into the room, sneering down at his new play toy. A neutral, he had realized. He knew she would be fun to break. Already the femme was paralyzed in fear, obviously knowing what danger waited for her here.
"Hello, femme, welcome to my ship."He said in Cybertronian, seeing as the girl know nothing about English.
The girl just whimpered in fear. Megatron's grin grew as he looked down at the young femme in front of him. He had to admit, she was attractive. Most femmes were though. This femme seemed to really catch his attention though.
"F-frag o-off."The girl stuttered in fear.
He just continued to grin.
"What is your name, femme?"He asked.
The girl didn't answer, and refused to look up at him, choosing to stare at the floor instead. After a minute, Megatron started getting frustrated.
"Tell me your name, femme, or I will bring Scalpel in here to teach you a lesson."He warned, his patience slowly slipping.
The girl still refused to look up at him.
"Like you weren't planning to bring him in here anyways. One thing you love to do is torture you prisoners and I have no doubt whether I give you information or not that you will bring him in here."She said stubbornly.
She became a little braver, knowing that showing fear will only pleasure this mech more. He didn't deserve it and show she decided to just hide her fear.
Megatron growled, not pleased with the girl's answer.
"Fine, have it you way."He said in English without realizing it.
The girl tilted her head confused, wondering what in the name of Primus he was saying. It was a language she did not recognize.
Megatron said nothing more as he stalked out of the room, slamming the door shut.
"Barricade, send Scalpel into the femmes room. She refused to cooperate and needs some, persuasion." Megatron commed Barricade.
"Yes Lord Megatron."Barricade said back.
When he hung up though, the con shook his head, annoyed with the way the Decepticon leader handled things. He had seen the femme when they raided her ship, she was barely older than a youngling. She was probably freaked out too.
So, instead of going to get the Decepticon scientist, Barricade headed to the room where he knew the girl was being held.
When he entered, the girl immediately froze in terror. Her blue optics met his and he saw the innocence in them. She had obviously not seen any of their war and would be no use to them. She didn't even have an insignia, obviously a neutral.
She was silently begging him not to hurt her, he realized. He had no plan on doing so anyways. He planned to get her out of her. It was only him, Starscream, Scalpel and Megatron here anyway. No other decepticon had arrived and others had been killed. Starscream would be out patrolling the skies. It wouldn't be easy, but 'Cade planned to help the femme anyway he could.
He approached her carefully. The femme shrugged away in fear, energon tears gathering in her eyes.
"P-please . . .don't. . d-don't h-hurt . . hurt m-me."She begged in a whisper.
The mech's eyes softened for just a second. She definitely didn't deserve to be here, she was too young and innocent for this war.
"Don't worry, I don't plan too. I'm going to help you get out of here."He promised her.
Her optics widened in shock. A decepticon was going to help her get out of there. It was almost too much to hope for.
"What about my family?"She asked as he started undoing the clasp on her wrists and ankles.
The black and white mech sighed. He had hoped she wouldn't bring them up.
"I'm sorry. They didn't make it."He clenched his teeth when the femme let out a small cry. "Megatron offlined them when they refused to answer to him. That's why I must get you out of her."
The femme was half tempted to tell him to leave her here, but knew that that's not what here family would want. She needed to live on. So, she pushed back her tears and nodded to her rescuer.
"Alright, what do I do?"She asked, determination settling in her voice.
"Just be quiet and follow me."He answered.
She nodded and followed him out of the room, keeping as quiet as she could, even with the pain that burned her body from the scratched and dents she got when the ship crashed.
They were lucky though, having never crossed any of the other three Cons and made it out easy enough.
"Will you be alright, it's a long walk."Barricade asked the femme.
She nodded.
"Good. My designation is Barricade."He introduced himself. "What is yours?"
The girl took a second to answer, but decided she could trust him. After all, he saved her life, and deserved to know who she was.
"My designation is Annalise."
(Jenny's POV)
It has been exactly a month since I awoke and bonded with Optimus. We spent as much time together as we could, whether alone or with Sunfire. I finally felt happy because I had everything I ever wanted. A loving family.
I noticed how Mandy and Ratchet, Maggie and Jolt, and Jessica and Jazz got closer. I'm pretty sure they were all mates now. Autumn spent most of her time with Bee, but we all knew it was because she practically adopted the young mech. It was really cute.
Sunfire loved all her family and loved pulling pranks with Sunstreaker and Sideswipe. It was cute, but annoying when they decided to pull one on yourself. Which they had done to me already three times. She was getting pretty tall tool, now up to my waist. She had finally reached her third and final frame. We were finding her something small to transform into, maybe a motorcycle, or small car.
I thought she was getting too tall too fast! My baby was growing up! Any mother dreads the moment their child becomes a full adult and is ready to face the world. She's already training in hand-to-hand combat. I refused to let her go anywhere near weapons until she was fully an adult.
She, of course, whined about it, but Optimus agreed with me, so she grudgingly let it go. I just couldn't believe how much she was growing up. She was equivalent to a 10 year old, though she wasn't even three years old yet.
Everyone else was doing fairly well too. We didn't have to worry about the human government that much either. I just think they were planning something though. I heard we were getting a new liaison, a women this time named Mearing. Dunno her first name, but I didn't really care that much anyways, so long as she left me and my family alone.
Three new autobots had actually arrived a couple weeks back though. Wheeljack, Mirage, and a mini con named Brains. He had been a decepticon, but joined the autobots, like Wheelie. Ratchet was especially happy to see Wheeljack.
They had even got a signal from some oncoming Autobots who would be here in about a week. I think there was also three of them.
Really everything had been going well here, things were finally settling down. Which is something everyone needed. But I had a strong feeling it wouldn't last. Something kept telling me that everything was off.
It fact, it was bothering more than ever as I walked down the hallway. Well, it was more of a pace. Thankfully the area was free of humans, so I didn't have to worry about accidentally stepping on one. Course, if there had been any, I could just transform to my human mode. I just wasn't in the mood.
~You help is needed~
I jumped as the voice I hear quite frequently spoke up. On instinct, I looked around thinking someone was there. The hallway was abandoned as I presumed it was.
"Who?"I questioned.
~A friend and an enemy who will be a friend~
I sighed, confused by what it could mean by enemy turned friend, but nodded in resignation. The voice wouldn't leave me alone anyways.
"Alright, where do I go?"I asked.
~Just outside this island. Quickly, one has little time to live, having lost so much energon~
I nodded once more before turning and running down the hallway towards the med bay. I ran right in. Ratchet wasn't expecting me to barge in and he jumped, dropping a data pad he'd been holding. He growled in frustration.
"What is it? This better be important."He snapped.
I nodded.
"Yes, hurry! There are two bots outside of the island and one is dieing from energon lose!"I explained quickly.
His optics widened, but he didn't question me. I was always right about this sort of thing and everyone rarely questioned me on this stuff. They knew that I was connected to Primus and a strange voice.
We rushed out to the dock where a boat was getting ready for a take off. Which was completely lucky for us.
"We need to get to shore as fast as possible."I explained hurriedly.
The urgency in my voice had the captain nodding as he ordered all his man to get ready, that this trip was now an urgent matter.
We got to shore in half the time as we usually would. Ratchet and I transformed and I followed the path the voice was pulling me too. Ratch followed without protest, trusting my judgment. It didn't take us long to reach our destination.
I was shocked to see who it was we were being led to. I recognized Barricade immediately due to his black and white police armor and the inscription 'To Punish and Enslave' written on his armor. He was holding a young femme in his arms. She was offline and energon caked her armor. Some wounds had reopened.
Ratchet ignored the Con as he took the femme and sat her down, immediately getting to work to stabilize her.
He growled after a minute though.
"She's lost too much energon. She won't make it back to the base with a transplant right now."He said in frustration.
"Let me see her. Maybe I can heal her."I suggested.
He nodded grimly and got out of my way. I touched her with both hands, palm down, and let the energy flow through me to her. It was all second nature now for me. I watched in satisfaction as the cuts and dents healed up and the dried energon disappeared.
The femme coughed and optics onlined as I took my hands away. She looked around confused, before spotting Barricade. Relief aloud her to relax as she spoke to him in Cybertronian. I didn't know much words in Cybertronian though, so I had no clue what she was saying.
"What happened to her."I asked Barricade after the femme calmed down.
He narrowed his optics.
"Megatron. The slagger killed her whole family then went to torture and kill her. She's a neutral and a youngling. I couldn't keep her there."He answered.
"Hasn't stopped you before."Ratchet said accusingly.
The black and white mech lowered his head in shame.
"I know. I-I couldn't disobey Megatron. He told me he had my sister, even showed me. Said if I disobeyed him, he'd kill her."He vented sadly. "It was only yesterday I found out he killed her years beforehand. Then I learned about his plans for her. She reminded me so much of my sister and I knew I had to get her out of there."He explained.
While Ratchet scoffed and looked like he didn't believe him, I did. I didn't know why, something just told me to trust him, so I did.
"Well, it doesn't matter right now. We need to get her back to the base."I said, nodding towards the femme who was still on the ground.
She jumped up when I said that and ran over to Barricade. Then she practically hid behind him.
I shook my head.
"Come on, before we're spotted. Does she have an alt. Mode yet?"I asked Barricade.
He shook his head.
We went to look for one for her. It took a while to finally settle on a car for her, she chose a red Kia Sportage. I also realized I didn't know her name.
"What is her designation?"I asked Barricade when we were safely loaded on the next boat back to Diego Garcia.
"Annalise."He answered gruffly.
I nodded before looking up at the femme who was in bipedal mode. Her armor was a cherry red color, complete with door wings and a single bumblebee antenna. She had blue optics, but no insignia. She was a neutral, Ratchet had told me.
For some reason, I felt like she was going to be a huge faction in this war. Something was different about her, and whatever it was could completely change everything. I had a feeling she was just as important in this war as I was.
(End of chapter Dos ocho! Hehe Who liked this chapter? Huh? Huh? Don't be too shy to answer! I know you liked it! Yeah! Lol, I hope you like your character Annalise Phaedra39. I personally thought she was cute, like Bee! Lol, don't forget to R&R people! Next goal is 150, let's reach it together!)