Alright! We're getting closer and closer to the end. Sad right? But at least I getting them out of the way since I neglected this story for so long. I'm a bad person aren't I? Oh well. Hope you enjoy chapter forty-three.
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Chapter 43:
For a few seconds of pure hell the building kept falling, me and everyone else falling through empty space in the room. Then, the building jerked and stopped falling. My upper body slammed into one of the columns that had been supporting the ceiling, they were now horizontal. I clung onto it, swinging my legs up on it as well so that my whole body was on top of it. "I really hate Decepticons." I groaned/
I then looked around seeing Sam sling Mikaela -who he held by her arm because she was dangling over air- down to a soldier who then slug Mikaela on to a fire escape. The fire escape was attached to the top of a building that had stopped the glass building's fall. "Sam!" Mikaela screamed for her fiance. Yeah, I saw the ring.
"We gotta move!" one of the soldiers yelled. I got into a sitting position on the column and swung my legs over the side. Epps helped me slid onto the column below me. I did this until I reached the bottom of the demolished building, one of the soldiers helped me down onto the fire escape where the rest of their group was gathered.
Sam suddenly stopped looking across at where the other building was, the driller's mouth was facing us, it's metal links moving like saws. It was inching closer to us under the bridge the fallen top half of the building had created between the two buildings.
The driller turned toward the streets, bullets hitting it. But I then turned and saw my Optimus shooting at the driller, and he was flying. My guess is he'd gotten his trailer back because the flight gear -wings and two jet like engines- was what was letting him fly to our rescue. He flew up above the building, disappearing from sight as the driller turned to face him.
I was glad to see the my sparkmate right now, things hadn't been going our way besides not dying of course. A few seconds passed and Optimus crashed through the building, taking off half the main driller's body. Optimus kept flying, landing on top of another building. Though I wanted to watch, I followed the rest of the team as they got inside the building and started to quickly descend the stairs. When we reached ground level, one of the soldiers kicked open the door, putting us in a torn-up alley way.
We started jogging, papers were raining down from the sky as a result of the glass office building falling. I looked up to where Sam was also looking, at the tan building with the pillars in it. She saw that the blue electricity-like energy was sparking over the cupola the pillar was under, a weird pulsing noise filled the air. "It's starting! You see it?" Sam called from the front of their group.
They started picking up speed, running faster, but were stopped as gunfire rained down next to them. Sam, Mikaela and I kept running down the alley. Fire flared behind them from the gunfire. We rounded a corner, a school bus was stopped in the side-road covered with dirt and ash. "We'll go this way," Sam said.
That was when I noticed we'd been separated from Epps' team during the gunfire. The three of us walked close beside the school bus, using it as cover. I had a bad feeling about this, we were too close to the pillars without proper cover or even weapons at that. Then I heard clicking above them and immediately turned, backing away. I didn't even have time to call out to Sam before Starscream landed behind Sam and Mikaela.
I grabbed Sam from behind, pulling him back toward her and away from the Decepticon, Sam pulled Mikaela with him. "What a treat! You a me alone!" Starscream spat.
"Mikaela!" Sam said pulling her and I to the side behind a huge concrete block that had been taken from the road. Starscream flipped the bus over, almost hitting us three. "Come on, come on! Run!" Sam yelled to Mikaela.
Both of them soon slid down by the bus. Sparks were literally flying through the air from Starscream's assault. I joined them under the bus as well. "Okay, he's after me not you," Sam told Mikaela. "Run!"
I grabbed Carly by the arm, pulling her in the doorway of the bus after herself. We ran down the length of the bus, Sam behind us. I could hear the whirring of a saw behind them, as the bus was cut open. "I just love it when your little insect feet try to run!" Starscream said behind us.
"Sam!" Mikaela yelled. "Run!" Sam yelled back.
I slid behind the concrete side of a ramp, Mikaela coming beside me. "Thought you were working for us, boy?" Starscream said. And I looked over the edge of the wall of the ramp, Starscream shoved dumpsters behind him throwing them toward Mikaela and I.
I saw that Sam had taken one of Wheeljack's weapons from his backpack, the grapple glove, and put it on his hand. He aimed it at Starscream and a claw shot out from the glove, grabbing hold of Starscream's eye. "My eye!" Starscream growled stepping back and yanking his head back.
Sam was pulled up from the ground, flying through the air. Sam swung by the wire attached to the claw gripping Starscream's red eye. Starscream attempted to fly, demolishing an above ground parking garage. Starscream landed and Sam was swinging wildly from the wire screaming. Then, I saw them, the NEST soldiers in their black uniforms with assault rifles. I smiled as Lennox -who was leading them- ran over to us. "Please, you've got to save Sam!" Mikaela cried. "You've got save him!"
"What the hell is he doing!" Lennox yelled more to me than Mikaela. "Nice to see you too, Lennox," I replied looking over my shoulder to see where Sam was. "Starscream attacked us out of nowhere."
"What's he got?" Lennox asked seeing the grapple glove. "Autobot technology!" I exclaimed over the commotion.
The NEST soldiers were firing at Starscream with their guns, knocking him back. I couldn't see Sam anywhere, until I saw him jump from a building next to Starscream, landing on top of the Decepticon. Sam impaled Starscream in his other eye with another one of Wheeljack's inventions, I knew it was the boom-stick meaning that Starscream was a goner. Stabbing him in his only good eye set Starscream off into full-out panic.
"I can't see! I can't see!" he exclaimed rubbing his hands over his eyes and shaking his head. Lennox ran out from beside me and grabbed on to Sam as he landed on the ground, the wire still attached to his hand."Sam!" Lennox exclaimed.
"It's on my hand! Grab the knife! Knife!" Sam yelled to Lennox. "I'm trying!" Lennox yelled grabbing the knife from Sam's backpack. Starscream got down on all fours, crawling and banging his head on the ground dragging Lennox and Sam behind him on the ground.
"The bomb's gonna blow! The bomb's gonna..." Sam started to say. Lennox was trying to cut the wire with the knife, but was having trouble. "You human scum!" Starscream yelled.
"We got twenty seconds on that bomb!" Sam yelled to Lennox. "What bomb!?" Lennox exclaimed. "You see that bomb?!" Sam yelled pointing to Starscream's head.
I watched as Starscream tried to get up again, he was taking fire from the NEST soldiers. "Cut it! Cut it!" Sam yelled to Lennox. "I got it!" Lennox yelled.
Starscream got up, pulling Lennox and Sam into the air again. I was nervous now. So I transformed up and ran forward. I made my hand transform into a knife and cut the rope, catching them before transforming back down, setting them gently on the ground.
The bomb blew up, blowing off half of Starscream's face and a hole through his chest. My head whipped around as I heard an engine roaring, I saw the yellow and black Camaro come around the corner, transforming. "Well, he's dead," Sam said. Lennox nodded, both men looked out of breath.
Sam, Mikaela, and I ran with the NEST soldiers and Lennox under an overpass. We were running toward the building. "Hey, Bee's gonna run with the rest of the Autobots and meet us on the edge of the river," Sam told Lennox. "All right," Lennox said.
The Decepticons had raised the bridges, probably to prevent the Autobots from navigating the city without the Decepticons noticing. I knew the Autobots' survival wasn't a secret to the Decepticons anymore. They reached the cream-colored base of the drawbridge, I ran behind Lennox up the stairs to the bridge. "We got to get across the river," Sam said.
Lennox stood beside Sam, me to the side of the two of them. "You see that? She said the pillar was in the first cupola," Sam told Lennox. "All right," Lennox replied looking at the tan building across the river.
They ran the rest of the way up the stairs, cutting to their right to go to where the bridges were raised to the sky. There were abandoned cars on the torn up concrete of the bridges, Lennox took the lead. "How do we get these bridges down?" Lennox asked.
His men spread around, looking for a way into the control room. I ran with Lennox outside into the sunlight away from the bridge. There were trees outside the building with a staircase leading up to the bridge. I Rachel looked to see if any stairs led up to the bridge control room. "Epps!" Lennox called.
I turned around where Epps ran up to Lennox, both men looking surprised. "Epps, I've been looking for your ass, how you doing?" Lennox asked.
"Retirement's whack, and even worse we can't get across the river to that building and the Autobots are upstairs, surrounded," Epps said. My spark sank at his words, I turned around and ran full-out up the stairs next to the bridge. I saw Sam look at me before realizing something was wrong and following me, Mikaela in tow.
Behind the raised bridge there was a demolished city square that had been reduced to ash and piles of burnt and flaming rubble. About seven Decepticons stood there, one held each of the five Autobots and the other two were standing guard. Ratchet was fighting the Decepticon holding him, Wheeljack, Bumblebee, Mirage, and Sideswipe looking on from where they had been forced the their knees by the Decepticons holding them.
I hid under an overturned, burnt car, Sam and Mikaela soon followed me in. I heard a noise behind me and turned away from the Autobots to see the drawbridge go down. My attention was then directed at the tan building where the blue energy from the pillars was sparking up the dome of the building, lines of the energy were streaming to it from the four cupolas where the pillars were.
As soon as they joined at the top a column of the blue energy shot up from the dome into the clouds above. Some energy reflected off the clouds, making it look like a lightning storm, but I knew the Earth was now in high danger.
When I turned back to look at the Autobots a taller, middle-aged man with black hair was standing in the center of the square, looking at the Decepticons. She assumed it was the Dylan character that Sam had talked about earlier, the one who'd taken Mikaela hostage and sided with the Decepticons.
"Prisoners? You're keeping prisoners?" he asked one of the Decepticons, the one who seemed to be in charge. "Yes," replied the silver Decepticon with a Mercedes-Benz emblem on him. "You need to teach them about respect," Dylan said.
I shifted in the car, uneasy about where this was going, I then moved closer to the Autobots and Decepticons, hiding behind another car. "This was all business, but now it's personal, do you understand me?" Dylan said. The Decepticon chuckled darkly, "I understand. No prisoners, only trophies."
I panicked, knowing what that meant. The Decepticons forced Wheeljack out from where he'd been on the ground. He was pushed to the ground, where he scrambled backwards away from the Decepticon walking toward him. "Wait! We surrendered! We're your prisoners!" Que said.
The Decepticon pulled him up and pushed him forward, "Move it!"
The Deceptions shot Wheeljack, knocking him to the ground and then shot him again, and that time he didn't get up. I growled in frustration but didn't get up. I knew doing so would just lead to my death. I had to wait for the opportune moment. That wasn't easy though when Bee was the next to be dragged to the middle.
Behind me, Sam was rummaging through his backpack, pulling out one of the bombs Wheeljack had given him. The Mercedes-Benz Decepticon forced Bumblebee around, his back to the Decepticon, the Deception then put a gun up behind Bee's head.
Energon tears slid down my face, leaving a defined trail down my dirty cheeks. Sam was beside me, he too was crying. She felt -knew- his pain all too well, the strong bond formed between an Autobot and a human over years of friendship, something not very easy to come by, about to be shattered by a Decepticon with a gun. If I could do something I would have, but they were out of options, short of running out there themselves. An idea suddenly formed in her head, a stupid idea.
I almost decided to say fuck it and transform, when one of the very large Decepticon ships' noses suddenly turned toward the ground, catching the attention of both Autobots and Decepticons. Falling debris struck the ground beside the Decepticon about to execute Bumblebee, distracting him long enough for Bee to get away.
Bee turned, donning his battle mask, and started fighting the Mercedes-Benz Decepticon, shooting and kicking him. The other Autobots had also escaped their would-be executioners and were now in full-out battle with the Decepticons. As the fight drew closer to the cars behind which Me, Sam, and Mikaela hid the three got out and backed away somewhat.
I turned long enough to see Bumblebee stuff his gun up the Mercedes-Benz Decepticon's chest armor and shoot his head off, killing the Decepticon. I smiled for the young Autobot, happy he was unharmed and alive. I then followed Bumblebee's eyes to the now-falling Decepticon ship that had saved the Autobots as it crashed into the Chicago River.
I transformed up and ran to here Wheeljack's body was, dodging the fight as best as I could. "You better come back, Jack." I muttered as I closed my eyes and did the same thing I had done millions of times before. Healing definitely became easier after a while
It wasn't long before Wheeljack's injuries repaired themselves and the sound of his spark hummed again. His optics online once more and I smirked. "Welcome back, Wheeljack."
He smiled back before jumping up to return to the fight. Satisfied that I had done what I was supposed, I ran off to where a battle between NEST and six Decepticons was raging. I had seen the soldiers parachuting from a tall building down on the Decepticons, I'd seen the snipers and the high-powered guns taking out some of them; NEST was by no means at a disadvantage.
I knew the arriving Autobots would still help tremendously, the soldiers would only be able to do so much before more Decepticons came. Sideswipe stopped behind Bumblebee and Mirage for a split-second before transforming. "Autobots, attack!" Sideswipe commanded, Ratchet transforming behind him.
Sam and Mikaela got out of Bumblebee and ran to a nearby three glass-walled bus-stop station on the edge of the street.
I ran into the fight, knowing what to expect. I had been thrown into a several battles with the Decepticons before. Between NEST and the Autobots, the Decepticons were easily matched. The sky was changing too, layers of hexagonal shapes covered the sky like it was divided into sections. Cybertron was being pulled nearer to Earth by the energy coming off the pillars, I didn't like the notion but it was true, the end of Earth was coming.
I went back to shooting at the Decepticons, trying desperately to kill any of them. I finally saw the Wreckers in the battle before hearing the scream of engines, looking to the sky I saw Optimus flying toward them. The Autobot leader flew at the fight, landing and spinning, catching one Decepticon and throwing him to the ground.
I quickly got out of the way as Optimus came down the middle of the street, taking out each Decepticon with his glowing Energon blades. He then took down Shockwave single-handedly before shooting a missile up at the cupola holding the pillar. The structure crumbled, the pillar falling to the ground and the stream of blue energy into the sky stopping. "Get down here, Sentinel," I heard Optimus say.
I saw Sentinel jump off the building, slowing his fall by throwing his double-sided blade into the building and grinding it all the way to the ground. Optimus drew out an ax that glowed like his Energon blade, which he also wielded. He fought Sentinel, backing the traitorous Autobot against the tan building.
I ran with some of the NEST soldiers and Lennox as they ran toward where Optimus and Sentinel fought, the Autobots ran behind the soldiers. I fought with NEST, shooting at Sentinel whenever Optimus wasn't in the line of fire, and then when enough NEST soldiers started firing at Sentinel she focused on the other Decepticons.
But it was long before I saw the fight going downhill for the Autobots and NEST, the smaller Decepticon ships, like the one Bee had tried to fly, were bearing down on them firing at Optimus. My sparkmate was taking cover behind a statue, trying to draw his gun. "Decepticons," Sentinel said trying to spear Bumblebee with
his blade.
Bumblebee transformed into his Camaro, backing up and evading the blade, then transforming again. "Trigger the pillar!" Sentinel said as Sideswipe jumped on him. Sentinel threw Sideswipe into the ground, "Restart that pillar!" he yelled.
I had gone back firing at the Decepticon ships when Tomahawk missiles rained down on the them. The ships exploded, giving NEST and the Autobots some chance to regain the upper hand. I decided to run for the pillar, to keep the Decepticons from restarting it and thereby securing the end of the world. The pillar was in her sight, a couple hundred feet away, when I was hit by something.
Of course, being made of metal, it had no affect on me. Standing in front of her was Dylan, the man was about her height, maybe shorter, but his stance conveyed he meant business. I threw a punch at Dylan, hitting him in the arm that he threw up to block me; he tried to return the blow, but I ducked, grabbing my second handgun from around her calf.
Evading a blow, I quickly shifted my weight onto one leg and used the other to sweep Dylan's legs out from under him. The dark-haired man fell to the ground flat on his back, stunned upon seeing me standing over him, my gun aimed at his head. I wasn't at all stunned. "Give me one good reason not to blow your head off right now," I said angrily, glaring at him.
I saw Dylan smile menacingly before a shadow was cast over her, with a gasp I turned and fired as she was picked up from the ground. The bullet glanced harmlessly off the red metal hide of a Transformer. I had no time to register this before I was thrown into a wall of a building, a tight grip around me. "You're Optimus's sparkmate, aren't you? The human turned cybertron.
I chuckled, not at all afraid of him. "The one and only, dude. Not only that, but I'm Primus's Incarnate. So killing me would probably bring more bad than good fortune to you." I replied with a smirk. "You aren't going to gain anything from this. The Decepticons, they are going to be the only ones who want Cybertron in the end. You did this for yourself, you're selfish. You say you did it for your planet, but that's not true; you did it because you're evil," I seethed.
Sentinel's gun was aimed at me, its barrel glowing as most did before they were fired. I closed my eyes. I wasn't scared of dying, I wasn't scared at all. She could feel heat from the gun, knowing she was about to die.
There were screeches of tires and sounds of a car transforming, then the gun was dropped to the road below. Sentinel staggered back after taking fire, dropping me onto the street. I looked up, seeing Sideswipe firing at Sentinel and keeping him away from me. "Get outta here!" Sideswipe yelled, pushing Sentinel back.
I got to my feet and ran, grabbing my first gun from where Dylan had knocked it from my hands earlier. Looking around, I saw that he had escaped before Sideswipe had come or the Autobot would have run over him. When I was finally back in the thick of the fighting, things weren't looking good for NEST or the Autobots.
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