Authors notes :
Wow! I think I can go somewhere with this story, well thanks for tuning in for chapter 2 hope you like it! =^-^=
Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers, if I did Jazz would be alive and kicking ass! :D But deep down, I know he's alive, he's just invisible and you just cant see him! Eat 'dem apples!
Kai's Pov -
The yells behind me never once ceased yet. I ran like the devil was after me himself, as I gripped the large bag in my arms even tighter and all its precious cargo.
"Get back here, punk!", one of the officers bellowed from behind.
"Never!", I sing-songed before taking a left into a shadowed alley-way, cops hot on my tail. Turning yet another corner, I stopped hot in my tracks as I was greeted by a 10ft tall gate stopping my hot getaway.
I heard the loud, thrumming footsteps stop dead behind me, along with heavy breathing. Slowly turning I noticed the beat, angry cops starring me down, guns drawn. "Now why do we need guns now fellas. How's your day going, you look kind of, . . .tired.", I said, my eyes looking for any possible escape routes.
"Cut the chatter kid, and get on your hands and knees!", the cop closest to me said. He had jet black hair and a gruff look to his face, obviously someone you don't want to cross twice. When I refused to move he clicked his gun as if sensing I was going to make a run for it. "Now.", he ground out.
I looked up just in time to see a dark shadow jump from rooftop to rooftop, crouching down on the one nearest me. I saw her put her finger to her lip, and disappeared again. Looking back at the cops I noted they were slowly closing in on me. With all their attention on me they didn't even see the fire escape ladder slowly descend to the right of me. Slinging the hefty bag on my shoulders I took my chances as I ran to the ladder jumping and grabbing the end of it before it shot upwards at fast speeds. Halfway up I flew past the shadow I saw before, her hair whistling in the air as we flew past each other.
Jumping off the ladder at the top I watched that at the last possible moment she grabbed another bar and somersaulted herself back up a level and raced up the metal stairs as shots were fired at both me and her.
Backing up, I waited until she sprung back up on the side of the roof, shots still ringing off. She ran over to me until a certain bullet clipped her arm sending her sprawling to the ground screaming out in shock.
"Kira!", I yelled rushing over to her and dragging her to the other side of the roof. I looked over the side and saw no police, and decided it was now or never. Before jumping off the side, Kira pushed me off her and stood up. "I got shot in the arm, I can still walk."
Looking at her I gave her an unsure look. After all the years I've known her, whenever she said she was alright she rarely was. She frowned when she noticed my face. "Don't give me that look. I know what I'm doing, don't stress, I was only grazed."
I was about to open my mouth and retaliate when loud yells filled the air. Looking over the edge I saw multiple cops running and looking in alleys, and the same cop that told me to stand down was barking orders at other police to further the search.
Rolling my eyes I looked back up at Kira who was still frowning. "I guess we gotta lay low for a few before heading back.", she said pushing some stray hair behind her hair. She tore a piece of her already torn shirt off and gently wrapped her arm up by tying a tight knot off. "Stupid cops been infesting this area.", she retaliated with a frown.
"You know I've even seen a couple of military guys around here too. Ever since that terrorist attack at downtown Mission City, it seems that law enforcement has been basically breeding over here."
Kira looked annoyed, "You actually believe that government crap."
"Don't be illogical."
"Don't be ignorant!", she yelled. "I'm not someone who just sits and listens to whatever nonsense the government has to say and believes every word of it. I've snuck downtown and I've SEEN the damage. No, . . . "terrorists" could even think to do that! Nor could they!"
"Kira, . . ."
"You know that white building with all the saint statues on top that we used to hide out in when we first started living on the streets?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I went back there, and there's this huge hole going through it!", I opened my mouth to say something but she beat me to it. "And don't you dare say it was a bomb or whatever. The railings and pipes and stuff was facing upward. Like, like something, . . .I don't know, like something came out of it.", she said unsure.
I gave her a blank look but stayed quiet. "You don't believe me do you?", she didn't wait for me to say something, "Fine, I'll prove it to you."
"And how do you expect to do that?", I said dryly. She smirked at me knowingly, "By taking you there of course."
I shot to my feet, "Are you nuts! There are military everywhere! We would get caught before we even set a foot in that place!"
"Correction.", she said smiling deviously at me, "You would get caught. But me, with my spying and stealth expertise would get us through and back in no time."
Slapping a hand over my eyes, I groaned, "Are you serious?". Smirking, she sat back down, "So what did you get that was so good that I had to get shot at over it?", she asked, completely ignoring my previous question.
Rolling my eyes I let it slide, sitting down myself across from her. Taking the bag off my shoulders I flipped it upside down so that everything in it rolled out onto the ground. There where three oranges, five cans of Vienna sausages, a loaf of squished bread, a package of hotdogs and a couple mountain dews. "Oooh, Mountain dew! Nice treat!", Kira said rummaging through the items before grabbing an orange and ripping it open.
"Enough to last us a decent amount of time I hope?", I questioned. Kira gave me a confident head nod.
The sun was setting behind her and the roaming, golden rays gave her an odd glow. This caused a smile to cross my lips, she reminded me so much of mom.
Noticing me smiling, Kira got suspicious. "Why are you smiling?", she said wiping excess juice off her chin.
Reaching down my tattered shirt I pulled out the golden pendant and opened the locket showing her our only picture of mom. We only had one picture so we decided on cutting it in half so that we both had a piece of her.
I had the left, scooting over Kira sat next to me pulling out her golden pendant and opening it to reveal the right. Putting it together we got a good look at how pretty she was. Kira was like a spitting image of her, technically me too, but I didn't have the natural feminine qualities Kira had.
Kira has long golden-black hair with a few natural streaks of reddish-brown, it comes to just above her waist that she now has tied into a messy bun. She has defiant cheek bones and a set of full lips that complemented her thin frame. Naturally curved, thin eyebrows and almond shaped eyes. Her eyes where a dazzling color of icy blue with a hidden red tint that comes out more when she gets angry or agitated.
I have the same defiant facial features but more fitted to my strong, square jaw line. And my hair was short and spiky and golden black. I had the same eyes, something we got directly from our mom. And we were both around 5"9.
Kira looked up to the setting sun before setting her head on my shoulder and leaning entirely on me. "I miss her.", she stated simply.
Looking up to the sky, "Me too.", we sat in silence as we both watched the sun set and the city come alive with its hidden night owls starting their day.
Sitting up, Kira clambered to her feet. "Come on."
"What?", I asked incredulously.
"I'm still taking you to downtown Mission city.", she said rolling her eyes. "Don't tell me you're afraid to go."
"No I'm not afraid to go! Its just that, . . .that.", Kira was already slowly lifting her hands to her armpits to do the chicken dance that I knew was sure to come if I said what I really wanted to. "Fine! Just know that if we get caught, there's no going back right?"
She rolled her eyes, before striding over to the edge of the roof and bracing herself, "Of course I know the consequences, . . .that's why you're not in charge.", she said jumping of the roof unto the fire escape.
Walking and looking over the edge, she had her hands on her hips, glaring at me, "So are you coming or not!". I snorted before jumping down where she was causing the stairs to shake. "Lead the way, o' annoying and temperamental one.", I mocked.
She sprinted down the stairs, myself hot on her trail.
The trip to the boarders of the city were, . . . Boring to say the least. We only came across a few late night patrollers, very small to the number I thought we would have to go through. Kira was doing a good job at making me look slow and making me mad. She kept jumping up onto high places and roofs that would take me longer to get up because I didn't have her natural, . . .gymnastic abilities.
The thought annoyed me to the bone. I shrugged it off nonetheless. I was starting to think it would be an easy trip in and out of the city, but when we had to stop and take immediate cover from all the military personal, I had some serious doubts about coming here.
Kira and I were both taking shelter in a dark alley behind a garbage bin, watching countless military walk around, guns in hand. I sent and annoyed look at Kira, "I told you this was a bad idea! But noooooooo, you wanted to come anyway!", I loudly whispered to her.
She shot me a death glare, "Oh shut up and don't get your panties in a knot. If I said I can get us in, then I can get us in. Now lay low and follow me."
I didn't have a chance to retort before she turned and sprinted down the alley making sure to stay close to the ground. She reminded me so much of a ninja as she disappeared in the darkness. This caused me to smile mentally. God only knows that she probably wants to be one, I thought.
Following her disappearing form we ended up at the other end of the alley where a new set of troops were stationed. "What now.", I whispered over. She put a stern finger to her lips causing me to fall silent when a guard walked by, to close for comfort I might add.
When he walked away she leaned over to me, "Its almost time for a shift change, when they're changing and preoccupied we run through that alley and were officially in the city limits.", she had a gleeful tone to her voice.
Looking back to the soldiers milling about one in particular walked up to another and started talking to him, what, I couldn't hear. But that didn't matter when the soldier the other soldier was talking too raised his arm up and everyone started packing up. "Is this the shift-change?", I asked. Kira nodded.
When all the soldiers turned to leave and had their back to us, Kira sprinted to the other side without saying a word. I was left behind glaring daggers at her for not saying anything. Asshole, I thought.
More soldiers replaced the ones that left cutting off my only escape. "Just great. Leave me behind, why don't 'cha.", I mumbled to myself running to a nearby table when none of the soldiers were looking. Ducking behind I rolled to an army jeep neighboring the table. I was almost to the alley Kira went too.
Oh how I was going to inflict pain on that girl if I survive. My heart was beating a mile a minute as tons of adrenaline started to kick in and fuel my panic of getting caught. God this was such a stupid idea!
Crawling under the car I inched my way over to the wall, keeping my eyes wide open for any of the soldiers. When nothing happened and no one pointed guns at me yet I dashed for the alley opening and knocked Kira over who was watching the spectacle.
We landed in a giant heap of tangled limbs and dust. "Get off me before we get caught!", Kira practically yelled at me only in whisper form.
Climbing off of her, I helped her up before kicking her harshly in her right shin. She fell to the ground in pain, it was 10x more painful because she wasn't expecting that. "That's what you get for leaving me behind, dumbass."
Standing to her feet she regained her composure, "Whatever. You should have been paying attention."
I was about to say something back when a bright light flashed on us both. "Hey!", someone yelled. We didn't need any more encouragement as we took off running down the alley. I ended up taking the lead and I took us down narrow winds and paths hoping to loose the army guys that continued to chase us.
I inwardly cursed everything as we were unable to loose them. We had to jump over tons of ruble and concrete because the more we progressed the worse it got. Looking behind me I noted Kira wasn't there anymore.
Shit, I practically yelled in my mind.
Taking another corner I was grabbed by a sturdy pair of hands and pulled into a dark building before the door was slammed shut. I was stock still and dead silent as the army guys ran past the door before it fell silent again.
"I swear Kai, running from the police seems to be a habit for you nowadays.", Kira said coming into the little streams of light the windows were letting in.
I growled as I stood up, brushing dirt of myself. "Its yours and always been your fault why we get in situations like this."
"Whiner.", she mumbled opening the door and signaling me to follow. When I came out I actually got a just of what the city looked like, I was, . . . Shocked, to say the least.
Large chunks were missing off of several buildings and streets were in desolation. "Wow.", was all could say.
"Exactly. And this is only the beginning, follow me.", Kira said jumping over multiple boulders of concrete before taking off down the road.
The surroundings were getting more and more familiar, as we ran deeper into the city. We passed multiple army guys patrolling, even a few sites where they were cleaning up some of the rubble.
Kira stopped dead in her tracks causing me to run into her back with a loud 'oomph'. "What the crap Kira?"
Looking around her I saw the large crater in the middle of an intersection. When I say large I mean, large. "What could have blew up here?", I asked.
This caused Kira to spin on me, "Are you serious, dude!"
"What?", I retaliated. She let out an irritated huff. "Don't you see that this cant possibly be and explosion crater? I mean just look at it! It doesn't even look like something blew up here, rather than, . . .fell. All the concrete is pushed inward."
"Something couldn't have fallen here. Because if it did, it would still be there.", Kira gave me the 'duh' face. "Well, Einstein.", she retaliated. "If its still there, where is it then?"
The intersection didn't even look like one, it was so destroyed. Buildings and corner stores were caved in, sidewalks crushed and glass shattered everywhere. Just looking in the immediate area this place looked like a war zone.
Looking back at her I shrugged. "Idiot.", Kira dry-panned.
"Am not."
"Am too."
"Am not!"
"Am too!"
I got agitated, "Am not!", I yelled pushing Kira back. She stumbled backwards before tipping over, but before she could fall she grabbed me with a squawk of surprise, pulling us both over the edge.
We rolled down in a trail of dust until we landed at the bottom of the crater causing a great dust cloud to burst into the air. Coughing some dirt out my lungs, "Dang it Kira!"
"You're the idiot who pushed me!", she snapped. Brushing some dirt off that was entangled in her hair. "Stupid sibling.", she mumbled.
We sat their picking debris and glass pieces out from our clothes and fell into a deep silence, until a low buzzing noise interrupted it. "You hear that?", I asked. Kira gave me a side glance, "What, your bitching? Yeah, I grew up with it so I basically ignore you now."
"Oh har har, Kira. No, that noise.", she quieted down and the buzzing seemed to get louder. She crawled over to the edge of the crater listening, "Yeah I hear it, its close by."
We started searching the crater, Kira going to the left and me to the right. We circled the crater until we started moving to the middle. We met in the center of the crater, pointing to a low emitting light under some rubble, Kira practically dove for it. Uncovering the dirt and shifting some loose concrete out the way a bright blue light burst from the hole she dug out.
Closing in, I was more cautious than my sister. The light was abnormal, that was for sure. "What is that?", I asked in awe as we both stared at the bright blue light.
She just gave a slight head shake before snapping out of her stupor and reaching for it. I slapped her hand away, "What are you doing!", I shrieked.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained.", she said pushing my hand out the way and picking up what ever was in that hole. She brought her hand out holding something, seeing how it didn't phase her or anything I reached out and touched it.
As soon as my fingers made contact the blue light shut off and the buzzing stopped. Kira looked at me shocked, "What did you do! Did your bad karma turn off the happy glow!"
"I don't know! I didn't mean it!", I defended. Looking down at her palm I saw what exactly she was holding. It was a large, plain looking, . . .rock? Only it had tons of weird looking designs and symbols etched into it. I've never seen anything like it. "What do you think happened?", I asked.
As soon as the words left my lips the buzzing came back only much, much louder. And the blue light was so bright I had to shield my eyes from going blind. I heard Kira scream as a warm sensation went through my body and I had the feeling of being utter and completely weightless.
But it started to slowly die down and a horrible wave of pain racked my body causing me to cry out in despair. Wave after wave of pain shock my body, sending me to the ground in a spiraled mess. I wanted my sister, I couldn't deal with this alone. I cried out for her only for silence and more pain to answer me.
But as soon as it came, it was gone. I felt like dead weight and my eyelids felt like lead. But sheer determination got me to open them. Looking around I saw Kira's relaxed body not to far from me, and that shard in-between me and her. Only now it was split in two, one shard was glowing a dark red, while the one nearest me was glowing a bright blue.
Sitting up, I tried to wave off the dizziness I felt. Soon after, Kira started stirring herself. "What the hell was that.", she said annoyed.
"I don't know, but I do not want to go through that again."
"You can say that again. It was so weird, first I felt like I was floating, the next thing, . . ."
"Pain.", I said blankly. She gave me a worried look before focusing on the rock that caused it all. She went to pickup the blue one, but I grabbed her hand before she could even get near. "Are you mad!"
"Nothing ven-", she started.
"And you saw what you "gained" the last time. What is wrong with you. Curiosity killed the cat you moron!"
Using her other hand she grabbed the blue shard anyway, "And satisfaction brought him back.", a sickening sizzling sound filled the air and Kira screamed as the shard turned red and seemed to burn into her flesh, she tossed me the shard out of habit, only for me to accidentally catch it.
Ready for the searing hot pain to lash through my hands that I knew was coming, it never came. Opening my eyes that I didn't even notice I slammed shut, I noted the shard continued to glow a bright blue like it had before. "Whoa.", I noted.
Kira looked fairly interested even though she was in pain, "Told you. You're stupid bad karma problems screwed up the stone!"
I looked back down at the red one, shrugging I reached for it. As soon as I touched it, the stone turned a bright blue and heated to a horrible degree. Dropping it to the ground before I singed of a finger, I recoiled my hand.
Kira burst out laughing, "Sucks don't it. Wait why couldn't you pick it up?"
"I don't know, red is such an awful color how 'bout that.", I said staring at the blue shard in my hand. Slowly inching her hand toward the red glowing rock, I almost laughed at how scared she was to touch it.
Finally landing a finger on it she immediately pulled it back. When realization hit she noticed it didn't burn her. Getting confident she completely picked it up gingerly in her hand. We both looked on in amazement, at each other. Did that rock just, . . .choose, I thought.
Looking on, both shards turned a bright white before turning off completely.
Minutes passed and we didn't bother moving, talking, breathing even, for the longest time it seemed. What in the world just happened? I was filled with a mixture of both amazement and pure shock. The silence was broken when Kira just had to say something. "That was so totally wicked!", she yelled holding the shard in the air.
I rolled my eyes at her enthusiasm, moron, I thought to myself.
"I am not a moron, jerk face!", my eyes went wide in shock and my jaw dropped. Did she just hear me? What the hell!
"What. Yeah I said it, jerk face, eat that!", she crossed her arms.
"Why'd you just call me that?", I asked, I had to make sure I wasn't going crazy. Kira gave me an annoyed look, "Don't try to act all holy, you called me a moron."
"Kira. I didn't say anything, now did I?", I asked.
"Of course you did, I got hyped, . . . You got, annoyed, . . .and, . . . You called me a moron, and your, . . .mouth never moved.", she finally said defeated. "But that's impossible, me being able to hear your thoughts, . . . wait try it again!"
I didn't know what to do but I just started thinking of random things, I wonder what time it is?. Kira didn't respond. "You didn't hear me?", I asked. She shook her head, "No. maybe, . . .maybe try and direct it especially at me, not just something in general.", she said brushing some loose hair behind her ear.
Focusing, I completely directed this at Kira almost as if trying to contact her or something. Earth to Kira., I said. This caused her to squeal in joy, "I heard you! Wait let me try!"
Waiting to be assaulted, her voice came pouring through my mind. Isn't this freaking awesome!, she yelled into my head. "Yeah, awesome. You just gave me a headache from the inside out. That's not okay.", I said rubbing my temples. She shrugged sheepishly before standing up.
"Where you headed now.", I dry-panned. She shook off the comment, "Come on Kai, we have to get back. Morning crews come pretty early and its worse cause they're energized."
Following her lead I stood and we both clambered out the crater we fell into. When we started walking Kira reached down her shirt and grabbed her golden locket, I looked on with interest. She opened the locket and carefully placed the shard inside before closing it back up and stuffing it back down her shirt.
Noticing my starring, she turned to me, "What?"
"Nothing. Just wondering what you were doing.", I said also taking out my gold pendant. I stuffed my shard piece inside and locked it for safe keeping. "Good idea.", I noted.
Falling back in stride, we hastily made our way back out of the desolate city.
A.N. -
Well, there you go. Trying to update regularly, plus I havent forgotten my other story. Anyway, please rate and review for cyber-skittles! =^-^=
Kitty Out.