Alright guys, here it is, the long awaited, much anticipated ending! I am so sorry it's been forever though. I've just been working on other things. I apologize though. I have returned though to finally finish this. Hope you like the ending.
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Chapter 42:
Believe it or not, when the rocket exploded, we did not. Why? Because we weren't in the rocket of course. No, that would be silly. We had hidden ourselves in the booster rocket. When it detached itself from the ship, so were we. It worked out for us in the end!
Anyway, the reason it had all gone dark was because we landed in the ocean. So of course it became dark. After that, we had risen to the top in time to see the tail end of the exploding rocket. We had actually anticipated something like that happening. But, we knew what was to come and we were gonna make sure the Decepticons did not win.
But, we had to give the humans time to realize they couldn't do this with out us. So, in the mean time, we found a spot for the girls and the sparkling to hide. We were not about to let them join in on this fight. Annalise would go with them as well. Though she was old enough, like the other girls, she did not have enough experience. Only Mandy would join us.
Optimus still wanted the girls to have someone to protect them, so he sent First Aid, Seaspray, and Beachcomber with them. It hurt me to once again say good bye to my Sunfire once more, but I knew she would be well protected.
So with a kiss to her helm and a promise to come back safely, I waved goodbye to my daughter and followed the others. We were heading to Chicago, where we knew the Decepticons had set up base. I mean, it was all over the news how aliens had completely destroyed the area. That was our destination and it wasn't long before we made our way there.
When we arrived, we arrived in time to see a Decepticon ship attacking people. I was disgusted to see people vaporized when the ships fire hit them. I did, however, notice Sam was with the group. So was Epps and others I did not recognize though.
"We have to help them." I said over the com link. The others instantly sent words of agreement. Optimus assured us we would. We waited until he gave us the go and immediately began to return fire. The ship lost control and we watched as it went down, and as the others scrambled to not get flattened.
I looked to see the Decepticon trying to free itself from inside the ship. That was when the others turned to look at us as we made ourselves known to them. The confusion on their faces was kind of amusing though.
"We will kill them all," Optimus said and I smirked. Finally, some action. Gotta love the last battle kind of feeling.
I turned around and watched the the three NASCAR gun-mounted Impalas transform in front of the fallen decepticon ship, the Target car taking the lead. "Wreckers, kill him!" the Target car commanded.
The other Impalas joined him in ripping apart the Decepticon in the ship. "This is going to hurt. A lot!" the Amp car yelled. I smiled before turning back to Optimus, who had began to speak.
"Your leaders will now understand, Decepticons will never leave your planet alone. And we needed them to believe we had gone, for today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them," Optimus said pointing to the ships surrounding Chicago.
I looked toward the road leading out of the city when I heard cars. I saw the Camaro, Ferrari, Corvette, Hummer and Mercedes that I knew so well. Time to get this show on the road! Bumblebee transformed as he was driving, coming up to them, Mirage and the others behind him.
Sam's eyes were fixed on Bumblebee, and I didn't blame him. Bumblebee knelt down, becoming almost eye-level with Sam, Sam looked at him for a while before looking back at Optimus. "We saw your ship blow up!" Sam said.
"The ship?" the Amp car asked, my attention was now fixed on him. "We were never in the ship! We designed the damn thing, didn't we?!"
I smirked. "We were hidden in the first booster rocket to separate, splashed down back into the Atlantic, just as planned. We ain't going nowhere," I finished, wanting to explain something. "No one's exiling us."
"The Autobots are staying right here. We're gonna help you win this war," Wheelie said from up top Epp's car. Brains was with him. "They're surrounding the city to make a fortress," Optimus said pointing to the Decepticon ships, "so that no one can see what they're up to inside. Our only chance is the element of surprise."
"I think I know where to look!" Sam called up to Optimus. Sam turned to face Bumblebee and he pointed at the fallen decepticon ship. "So you can fly this thing right?" Sam asked Bee. Bee made a "maybe" gesture with his hand, making a "I dunno" sound. "What is that..." Sam said copying Bee's gesture. "What is that? What is that? So-so?" Bee shrugged. "So, you can so-so fly this, that feels terrible," Sam said.
I smiled, giving a short laugh at Sam and Bee. Then I transformed down and climbed up on the Decepticon ship next to Sam. I gave Sam a hug, which he returned. "We're right behind you," Epps said. The way Sam took the gun -holding it like he was afraid of it- and the look on his face made me sigh. "Sam, I'm gonna help you with whatever you have to do... what is it you have to do?" I asked curiously. Sam informed me what had happened to Mikaela. "Well, I'm gonna help then."
Sam helped me up the ship to where Bee had gone through the hatch into the ship. Sam and I both went into the hatch after Bee, sitting next to him. Bee started the ship and it took off from the ground. Bee turned it around and headed for the city. I couldn't see outside, but I knew we'd turned around, apparently Bee could see just fine.
When we got to our destination, Sam climbed up to the top. I decided to stay where I was. We'd have better luck that way. I heard gunfire and I quickly climbed through the hatch to see Sam get thrown over the railing by a vulture-like Decepticon. Luckily, the ship was right under him and he landed on it, Bee raised the ship to the edge of the building's balcony while Sam hung on to the gun mounted on the front of the ship. "Mikeala!" he yelled. "Mikaela!"
I saw Mikaela run from the building and jump onto the ship into Sam's arms. Bee started firing the ships' guns at the building. The bird-like Decepticon flew at them, attacking Sam, Mikaela went through the hatch beside me. The ship started descending in a wild spiral, quickly and out of control. I felt us crash into what could have been buildings.
We spiraled lower and lower until we crashed into something and the ship turned upside-down. I gripped the side of the ship. The ship rolled and then came to a stop. I hoped Sam was okay, he'd been on the front of the ship where it had rolled. The hatch opened and I climbed out followed by Mikaela.
I saw Sam walking towards us and the roar of many engines. The rest of the Autobots were driving towards us, led by Mirage. Sam embraced Mikaela and I watched as Bee climb out of the ship.
"You found me," Mikaela said to Sam. "I'd follow you anywhere," Sam replied. I smiled at the couple before turning to watch the bots pull up and Epps and his men got out of the bots. "Form a perimeter! Let's go, let's go!" someone called.
They aimed their guns at the sky, looking for Decepticons, making sure that there were no threats. I also looked around until Epps walked up to them. I smiled as he walked right up to Sam. "Well, you're crazy," Epps said pulling Sam into a one-armed hug.
"What is that? Is that us?" Sam said pointing to something behind Epps. I turned around, looking where he was pointing to something on the ground. I recognized it after a few seconds, it was a military UAV mini-drone.
I then realized that NEST had no eyes in Chicago -satellite-wise- what so ever and the Decepticons were probably shooting down larger drones that NEST would have used before this one. "This thing's a military UAV. Stone, check and see if it's still working," Epps called to one of his men.
"Yeah it's still got power," Stone said as Epps knelt down in front of the camera on the drone. Sam Mikaela and I stood behind him.
"Flight Control, do you copy?" Epps said to the drone. "Can...Can you rotate? Can you do something?" Epps wiped the dust from the screen of the camera and shaking it. "Can you rotate or something? Come on, work! Work!" Epps called. "Can you rotate or something?" After a long pause the camera rotated toward them, facing Epps. "Yes, yes! Okay, okay, okay they can see us," Epps said to Sam.
Sam knelt down eye-level to the camera. "Chicago is ground zero, do you understand? Can you hear us? You understand?" Sam said.
I watched as Mikeala knelt down in front of the camera and Sam got up. "Please listen. Sentinel Prime is here and he has his pillars to his space bridge, they're on top of a building on Chicago River. It's owned by Hotchkiss Gould Investments, now, the pillar that controls everything is in the southeast cupola," Mikeala said.
"You have to destroy the pillar, you have to shoot down the pillar or they're gonna transport Cybertron here, do you understand? Do you understand?" Sam said.
"We need to move before the fighters spot us, wait here until we scout a route ahead. Let's roll," Optimus said walking away. "Ratchet, cover high," Sideswipe ordered following Optimus.
I helped the ex-NEST friends of Epps' check their ammo and load all their weapons. "Hey, you think we can use that rocket to shoot down the pillar?" Sam's asked and I turned to face him curiously.
"We're eight blocks away, we got to get closer to take a shot," Epps replied. "Not closer, higher," one of the ex-NEST members said from the fire escape he was on, pointing to a building dominating the skyline. "We need a clear line of sight."
"And it's across the river, we're gonna have a hell of a time trying to sneak up," Epps said. "We only got one shot," one of the ex-NEST members said holding up the only shot.
Just our luck, I thought and I hoped that Lennox and NEST were on their way after their video feed from the UAV. "One shot's all we need," Sam replied optimistically.
They all got into the Autobots, while I transformed into my alternate mood. We drove down a road surrounded by buildings on both sides, or at least, what remained of the buildings. Bumblebee and the Wreckers were in front of Mirage, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Wheeljack behind them and Optimus bringing up the rear. The rest of the autobots were protecting the girls.
The road under the Autobots bringing up the rear suddenly sparked and broke apart in some places. Suddenly, the metal tentacle-like things -the drillers- attached to Shockwave that they'd encountered in Chernobyl shot up from the ground around Optimus. I watched as his newly-acquired trailer was unhinged from him and rolled apart from him. Optimus kept driving, distancing himself from Shockwave.
The Autobots pulled outside a vacant building that resembled a train terminal. I transformed into my human mode once more and joined Epps and the rest of the team. They ran into the building as the Autobots transformed and followed them into the building.
"That is one scary-ass Decepticon!" Epps exclaimed as he ran into the building. I stopped, looking up as Optimus as he came into the building holding his gun out.
"They got my trailer, I need that flight tech," he said loading the gun. "Shockwave can't hunt all of us at once. Wreckers, we need a diversion."
"Let's get some!" the Amp car exclaimed excitedly walking toward the entrance. "You got that right," the Target car said following him.
I watched as Epps went up to a window in the building, pointing at something. I went up beside him. "Listen, we're gonna circle around to that glass building," Epps said.
My eyes widened when I saw it. "You mean that one, the one that is leaning because half the middle of it is a giant hole?" Rachel said in disbelief. "Seems pretty safe."Epps looked at me and shook his head. "We'll get high enough to make the rocket shot, while you guys draw his fire," Epps said pointing to the Autobots. "Let's move!"
Epps ran with his team, but they were all quickly stopped by Wheeljack. "Wait a second! I'm not letting you go out there without my urban combat prototypes," He said dropping some items on the ground.
"We gotta go, Jack!" Sideswipe urged. "Come on," Jack said to Sideswipe, waving him away. "They're great inventions for kicking ass." Epps' team and Sam picked up the two different weapons off the ground.
"What are these?" asked one of Epps' friends picking up a almost diamond-shaped weapon. "Those are boom-sticks, armed in thirty seconds," Wheeljack said and then about the other weapons. "Grapple gloves, for climbing."
We then ran out of the building into gunfire between the Autobots and a few Decepticons standing on the roof of a building not far away. I ran in the middle of the group next to Sam and Mikaela. "Go, go! Move your ass! Move, move!" one of the ex-NEST members yelled.
I saw the Wreckers driving to the left, but their group ran to the right. Optimus was across the road, firing at the Decepticons, Ratchet with him. "Move, move! Let's go!" another ex-NEST member yelled as they ran down a vacant street.
We were soon out of the line of fire between the Transformers, but I knew they weren't out of danger, not yet, not at all. We ran down the demolished street and continued through the streets of Chicago. It wasn't long before we reached the base of the glass building.
We ran inside, rounding the corner on the first floor. The building's inside -at least the first floor- looked completely untouched, the white marble floors were so polished that I could see my reflection. The brown, hard-wood walls were the same way. "Go for the stairs!" Epps called.
I looked around for stairs but only saw elevators which I knew would do no good. Sam ran way ahead of them, around the next corner. "Epps, this way!" he called back not slowing his frantic run.
The rest of their group ran after Sam following him up the stairs he'd found. They scaled the stairs and I didn't know how many floors we'd gone up. We ran into one of the rooms after we'd climbed for another few minutes. "Come on, we're high enough!" Sam said running to the windows on the other side of the large room.
"This is a mother getting up here!" one of Epps' friends said, he was shorter and thicker than the rest. "Get your fat ass over here!" Epps yelled at him. "I'm coming," the man panted.
The office was also untouched, the chairs and desks were set up like a normal work day had been going on, the small potted plants were even lively. The room was light and airy with stretching glass walls for windows in three of the sides, except the windows were shattered and the building was leaning a little. Epps ran to one of the windows. "Set up the rocket!" he commanded.
He looked down at the city below from the windowpane, I ran up beside him, Sam and Mikaela were behind me. My eyes widened as I saw a tan building with four pillars across the city, three of the pillars -the ones facing their team's vantage point- were sparking with blue energy. "There," Mikaela said pointing at the tan building, "the building with the dome."
The men started loading the rocket launcher, passing of the shot until the thicker man Epps had yelled at had the launcher loaded. Before they could even aim at the pillars, the building shuddered and shocked exclamations came from their team. "Whoa, the building!" some of them yelled.
"They're shooting at the building!" one of the men by the launcher yelled to Epps. By now I had moved away from the gapping, open windowpane. I stood beside Sam and Epps, Sam was covering his ears and head.
"This is not a good idea," the thicker man with the launcher mumbled from the shattered window. "What?" Sam said in shock, as if he couldn't believe the man had said that. "This is not a good idea, the building is unstable," the man said.
I could tell Sam was on the edge of one of his freaking-out episodes when he ran over the the man. "Listen, stop for a second. If we don't do what we came to do, it doesn't matter, we all die, right? That's your target. Come on, man!" Sam said clapping him on the back.
"I don't care if the building collapses, I'm having a heart attack anyway," the man muttered as he aimed for the building. Suddenly the rolling chairs in the office started rolling across the floor. I tried hard to keep my balance as the building started leaning further and further.
"The building is going over!" Epps yelled. I ran forward and grabbed one of the rectangular pillars supporting the roof.I couldn't have moved fast enough either because as soon as I had my hands on the pillar the building slipped fast, sending most of the furniture on the floor over. I saw that the rest of the team had also found similar things to hold to.
The building kept tipping over for a few seconds before it stopped, leaving me leaning all my weight on one side of mt body to stay upright. "It's okay! It stopped!" Epps yelled. "Guys, look!" Mikaela screamed. "Everybody hide!" one of the soldiers yelled.
I saw them, two Decepticon ships flying toward the building and I quickly ducked behind the pillar I'd been holding on to. I heard clicking and noises that I recognized, and then a loud crash as the window shattered behind me. Debris flew everywhere as a snarling Decepticon rolled into the building.
I held my nonexistant breath as it moved around, looking for us. I heard the sound of a Cybertronian weapon cocking. I saw Epps pull the pin on a grenade and he nodded to the man across from him who was holding chairs. The man let go of the rolling chairs which picked up speed and zoomed past the Decepticon, distracting it. As soon as it looked away Epps threw the grenade at it, the grenade exploding. "Run!" Epps shouted.
Every one of us discarded their hiding spots and ran in the opposite direction of the Decepticon. "Cover fire!" I heard some of the men yell and I heard the ringing of bullets being fired. "Shoot the glass! Jump out the window!" she heard someone yell.
I transformed my hand into a gun and shot the glass in time to jump out of it behind the others. My back slammed against the side of the building and I began sliding uncontrollably down it. Everyone was sliding down the side of the building.
My mind was blur as we picked up speed, Mikaela was screaming and Sam had grabbed her, pulling her close to him. All of them had managed to turn to slide on their backs which seemed better than sliding head first where you couldn't see. There was nothing to hold onto, no ledges to grab, we were falling too fast to stop now. "We're gonna die!" one of the soldiers yelled.
I quickly tried to think of something to do, this was no way to die. Not that I would die, but still! "The glass!" I yelled. Epps understood though. ""Shoot the glass!" he yelled and shot the glass panel in front of him.
We all took our guns and shot the glass wall until it shattered and fell apart. I screamed as I fell through the open glass and tumbled into the building. I'd almost slid halfway out of the other side when I realized the building was leaning too much and the speed she'd gathered sliding would carry me out the other side with the slick marble flooring. Quickly, I grabbed wires that had been dislodged and hung from the ceiling, reaching the leaning floor. I held tightly as the wires swung up from her force and slammed her back down into the floor.
"Holy shit," I whispered. My whole body trembled and shook uncontrollably as I clung to the wires. Her arms were leaking energon from being forced through shattered glass so many times and my spark hammered. I looked around and saw Epps directly in front of me, likewise clinging to wires, he was on the edge of a shattered window facing the ground a feet hundred feet below. "Thanks," Epps said when he saw Rachel looking.
"No problem," I said nonchalantly. I looked behind me and saw we were only missing one of their team, one of Epps' friends. "Everybody okay?!" I called back to them. There were positive replied from everyone, along with everyone's labored breathing.
"What the hell was that!?" Epps' friend -the one who'd tried to shoot the rocket- yelled. I looked around and saw Sam had grabbed onto one of the wires and then grabbed Mikaela's arm. "This evil thing's looking at me!" Epps yelled.
"What!?" Sam and I called at the same time. "It's even got an uglier Decepticon with it!" Epps said getting away from the window. I used the different cluster of wires like ladder rungs, eventually pulling herself to the stairs leading down a level. "We have to evac!" Epps yelled.
Soon the rest of the team was with me and they went down a level. "Sargent Epps! The stairs are blocked, we're trapped!" one of Epps' friends yelled.
The floor we were on was at less of an angle and had carpet for flooring, which helped a lot as they all scrambled to find a way out. I ran with Epps and Sam to the window. The driller was circling through the building, going in and out of it. "Move! We gotta move!" Sam yelled beside her.
"Why do the Decepticons always get the good shit!?" Epps yelled running away from the window after Sam and I. We started running to the middle of the room. "We about to get eaten, people!" Epps' friend yelled.
Suddenly, everything started leaning, and we were swept off our feet by gravity. We all started rolling head over heels. Everything in the office room started tumbling with them. I knew what was happening, the top half of the building they were in was finally falling over because the driller had broken it. Things weren't looking too hot for the humans right now. Of course, if I wasn't careful, my spark could be extinguished as well.
Again, sorry for such a long wait. Originally, I planned this to be all one chapter, bu things don't always end up the way you plan. Maybe two more chapters. We'll see. Hope you guys enjoyed the much anticipated chapter. I'll try not to take four months to update again! Love you! REVIEW!