I ruined my own schedule. I'm sorry i didn't update it sooner. I had a vacation to my father's hometown with car, and there was no signal there *sobbing*. I'd like to thank everyone who has favorited and followed this story, i'm sorry i can't mention you one by one.
CastielLunaWinchester : Yes, i'm happy that you realized the Mjolnir and mention it here xD
Final Countdown
Chapter 5 : Death
"Chloe, darling, can you guess what's our gift for you?", a beautiful woman pinched her daughter's nose.
"Music Box! I saw many pretty music boxes with mom the other day at mall", she did happy light-jumps on her seat.
"Hey, hey, don't get too excited. You'll get something better than that, you just have to wait until we get home", her father patted her head.
This was Chloe's 10th birthday. She went to her favorite amusement park, had dinner at her favorite restaurant, along with her favorite little family. When they went home, she was surprised because her parents still had another birthday gift. The little girl jumped happily inside the car. This was the best day ever.
She glanced outside the window and looked up. The magnificent sky full of stars, the one that her father always talked about. He said it brought tranquility, peace, and other pleasant feelings to your mind and soul. Even though her mind was already peaceful at the moment, the sky never failed to bring more peace.
She stumbled forward a bit because her father pulled the breaks. The tranquil moment turned into chaos in a matter of seconds.
Black SUV cars surrounded them. Many people wearing black suits came out from it with guns on their hands, "Get out of the car!".
"Mom, I'm scared", Chloe grabbed her mother's shoulder, and hid her tiny face. "Shh, don't worry darling. They won't hurt you", she stroked Chloe's hand, making sure to comfort her. The lady gave signals to her husband, asked what should they do.
"We don't know their intention, yet staying inside won't make it any better", he whispered. "Calm yourself, and let's get out of the car slowly", he asked both females. They nodded in return.
"Hand's up and don't make any sudden moves!", one of the suited guy shouted. Everyone stayed on guard and pointed the gun at Chloe's father as another suited guy approached him. He pinned him on the car's hood, handcuffed him, and gave him special braces on each hand. They treated him like that yet the poor father didn't show any signs of rebel.
"D-dad?", little Chloe gasped. Her father looked at her way and gave her reassure smile, "Everything's gonna be alright"
Many men also came near Chloe and her mother, the mother protected her little girl and hugged her tightly, showing the most lovable affection a mother could give. It was almost useless. Those men separated them roughly, gave no mercy for the two. Her mother already been dragged to somewhere else, while Chloe could only cry bloody murder on her place.
"Hey, you already got me! Hands off of my wife and daughter!", the father yelled at those men. Blue energy surrounded his hands but the thing that went out from his body were only his screams. Frighteningly awful screams that signed he was in such pain.
His heart broke even more when he saw what those men did to his darling daughter. They put the same brace on her hand, then prepared the bluish glowing liquid to be injected to her body. "Shit, don't inject that to her! She's too young to be your shitty experiments!", the men still pinned him on the hood.
Too late.
It only took less than a minute for the liquid to work. The poor girl jolted. Her adrenaline rush already mixed her blood with the blue liquid. Her heart beated faster. She fell to the ground with painful expression, curled up, and grabbed her own chest.
Blue glyph tattoo spreaded from her back to both her palms. She freaked out and it only made things worse. Her body radiated unstable energy around her and created the wind effects. She sat there, cried out in fear and pain.
Watching his beloved daughter and couldn't do anything, no father could take such torture. "Please, stop this madness", he begged. Nothing changed, except for the fact his daughter cried more.
"Please, I can't watch my daughter takes the pain", he looked down and murmured.
"Please, no more", begged more, tears started to drop.
"Please", his voice was so low, even the ones who pinned him down couldn't hear what he said because of his daughter's eerie shriek. He bit his tongue, and clenched his hand. That's it, he thought.
Crack, sounds of breaking bones echoed.
He spinned and kicked two guys that pinned him. He brought them down, heavily injured, in a matter of seconds. The other suited men surprised, then pointed their gun at him. He gathered the energy around his hand, created the same gun, and pointed it at their direction.
"How can he do that? We already put the repressor on him!", the captain could not believe the sight before him. He commanded one of his men to observe the thing from afar.
"You're looking at this?", he broke the brace easily, raised it to the air, and threw it. His face showed pure anger and disgust, "You're gonna pay for all things you did"
He shot their guns and disarmed all of them ; none of his shots missed. He walked slowly to their captain to gave a lot of intimidation.
A man grabbed another gun and shot him. The bullet stopped by the energy's force and fell afterwards. Chloe's father stopped. He gave the shooter a death glare before drew near and punched him in the face hard enough to sent him flying. All men near him panicked because they didn't expect that coming. They drew their weapons and attacked, but he blocked it easily with his power. He got mad and sent them flying. All remaining men stood silently, didn't dare to attack him.
He continued walking to the captain.
"You're the one who's responsible for my daughter's misery", he walked until his gun touched the captain's forehead and aimed it. He had the all the guts to pull the trigger, but he needed to keep his mind together and thought that it could only bring more harm than good. He snorted and made the gun disappeared, "Tch. Killing you won't make it any better"
He looked at her daughter who curled on asphalt and called him out. He felt a little pain oh his body after all these things, but none of them compared to his heartbreak when seeing his daughter like this. He approached her and gave a reassure smile.
Then gunshot were heard.
Running footsteps echoed.
Chloe's father looked back to see his gorgeous wife had taken the blow to protect him. His face stared in horror as he catched his falling wife. Chloe could only screamed when she saw her mother bleeding to the death.
"MOOOOOMMMMM!"
I gasped as I woke up from the tremendously wrong dream. Stupid fucking dream.
I gathered all my souls and looked around. I used a mask to keep my breathing, and the monitor besides my bed showed my heart beated in slow pace. I was sleeping in a white room, or should I say, one of the experiment room. I had been here many times, and I never thought I missed this view.
Still laying on berth, I looked around the room. A suited man sit besides my berth with relieved looks planted on his face. Jacob. Then I looked at myself, I wore the all-white experiment shirt and pants. Great.
"Are you okay?", he asked worriedly. Was I supposed to be okay after all that things that happened? Duh, Jacob, you were unbelievable. "Define 'okay'"
"My bad. It was just an expression to show sympathy", he grinned stupidly. His action made me chuckle.
"How long I've been out?", I pulled the mask off and sat on the berth. I felt no more significant pain, so there was no point on laying there. I pulled all things that attached to the monitor and stood up.
"Just a couple of hours. You should have woke up sooner, but they put you to sleep with that gas", he pointed at the weird gas tank not far from my berth. Besides the weird gas tank, I saw the oxygen tank that attached to my mask. I guessed he changed it to wake me up.
"So, what's with these noises?", the buildings rumbled and I could hear explosions.
"The Decepticons are here", that simple statement was so nerve-wrecking. They were finally here to retrieve the cube, and that meant our lives were on danger. Great. Yesterday was bad enough, I just woke up from horrendous dream, and now the Decepticons were here. This couldn't get any better at all.
"Sam is also here, and he freed Bumblebee. Now they're going to secure the Allspark", he patted my head and huffed.
"So? Simmons arrest me here, there's nothing I can do", I looked at my hand. Last time I remembered, they put on the repressor but now it was gone. It seemed weird. Also, the whole base were being attacked but Jacob waited here. There was something fishy going on here.
"I'm ordering you under S-Seven Executive Jurisdiction to assist them securing the Allspark. Do what you can, don't hold back", his voice sounded so explicit everytime he said the jurisdiction thingy. I raised my eyebrow. First they arrested me for using my power in public, and now they wanted me to use it at full-potential. They were more labile than a girl in on her period.
"I don't get this. I broke my protocol and now you let – no, order me to go", I sighed and shook my head. "What do they want?"
"They only brought you here to check your condition. After seeing the good progress inside your body and witnessed the power themselves, they'll let you go eventually. After all,they want you to be a weapon, they can't beat those scary-ass Decepticons with only the help of 6 Autobots", he explained. I snorted. So that was what they wanted.
"Well, I want you to be free, unleash all things you've got. I want you to become yourself for once in a while. Didn't it feel great when you used it back there?", he added. I smiled wryly. He was the only one who understands.
"Mission City is 22 miles away. We're gonna sneak that cube outta here, and we're gonna hide it somewhere in the city", Captain Lennox suggested.
"Good, Right!", the Secretary Defense, Keller agreed.
"But we cannot make a stand without the Air Force", he stated.
"This little girl also wanna help!", I shouted from afar. I walked into the crowd with Jacob as my escort. I changed into black hoodie with gray sleek on the side and also gray jeans. I didn't want to run on those white clothes from the experiment section, thank you very much.
"Chloe!", Sam and Mikaela said in unison.
"And who might you be?", the Captain looked at me and raised his eyebrow. I knew him more through the S-Seven files that I got. He was the captain of the surviving members in Qatar.
"Chloe Scott at your service", I slightly bowed. After that I saw he asked Jacob about me then slowly nodded. The disbelieve looks on his face and his team's, ooh priceless. I loved it when someone knew about what I was capable of.
He continued talking to the SecDef and Simmons, and commanded all of us to move out, "Allright Sam, Chloe, get in the car!". Bumblebee transformed, and we got in the car. Sam sit on the driver's seat, Mikaela besides him, and I was at the back. The Allspark was located beside me.
We exited the Hoover Dam, went to the Mission City with Captain Lennox's team following us.
"So, Chloe. What happened there?", in the middle of this chaos, Sam still managed to ask me that. Really, Sam? "Nothing serious happened, the S-Seven asked me to assist you", I answered.
"But, you know, you passed out back then and it worried us all", his face showed sympathy all over it. I giggled, "Don't worry about me. I'm a tough girl, remember that?"
We had sight of a blue and red Peterbild, and bunch of fancy cars behind it. I raised my visual acuity and made the picture clearer, "It's Optimus and his team". As soon as they passed us, all of them drifted and followed us from behind.
"Chloe! You are alright!", the sudden shouting in the radio jerked us.
"Hey, Sides", I greeted him cheerfully. He blabbered about how much he worried about me. He said I was a fool because I charged in without longer thought, and he was fooler because he let me did it. He got mad because I was suffering back then. It was true, the repressor was real pain in the ass.
He was mad because I suffered. He was mad because I helped his comrade without second thought and endangered myself. He was mad because he couldn't do a thing about it.
"Thanks, Chloe", he thanked me because I tried to save Bumblebee. The almighty, glorious, warrior and frontliner Sideswipe just thanked me because of what I did. Not just him, but other Autobots, too. I felt... I felt happy.
"So, you're gonna fight with us? I'd like to see you using that sword once again", he chuckled.
"I'm honored to fight with you all, but I think it would be unwise if I use sword to fight big-ass robots"
Sound of sirens were heard. Sam looked back and cursed himself. It was Officer Cade. I meant, the fucking robot that disguised himself as an officer. Not far from him, there was a yellow truck that scooped up cars. It was ridiculous yet frightening.
The dirty yellow truck transformed itself, skating and chased Optimus who happened to be in the back. He created chaos, explosions and fire everywhere. After he caught up with Optimus, he tackled him down and separated us.
"All Autobots roll out. No one fighting anyone until we get to destination, and that means you twin slaggers", Ratchet informed through the radio. I guessed he was in charge after Optimus. Wait, what the fuck is slaggers?
"Ah, that's not fun Hatchet", they frowned.
"Call me Hatchet one more time, I will always use the hard way to fix you two", oh yeah Ratchet was medic. So, from this conversation I presumed that the twins liked to fight but ended up breaking something, and Ratchet had to fix them. Hmm. Interesting.
After long and hot drive, we arrived at Mission City.
All soldiers and black ops got out from the cars. Lennox commanded his team to pop the smoke after seeing an F-22 flew above us. The one who kept talking with the old radio was Epps. The smoke already spreaded, but he didn't get any responds. Something was definitely wrong here.
I looked at the F-22, and it had alienese glyph all over it, "It's not Air Force!"
"It's Starscream!", Ironhide transformed quickly while Epps asked for one more confirmation, "Please tell me you copy". If we weren't in dangerous situation, this would be funny as hell.
Ironhide told us to retreat and fall back, he also needed back up from Bumblebee. Both of them pulled up a truck with its container to make a barricade as protection, but it made themselves as one hell of easy aim for Starscream. Starscream who realized it, immediately shot missiles to them.
I managed to create huge thick metals to protect the humans at last seconds, but I was too late for my own protection. The missiles hit the metal in front of me, exploded into pieces, and hurt me harder than anyone else. Damn, i was slow.
I woke up to the sound of ringing and blurry vision. My hoodie were torn, and slightly exposed my full-of-alien-tattoo right hand. I also received cuts and bruised, but not too many. I looked at the surrounding, and their condition was almost the same. I stood up and looked at Bumblebee.
Oh no. His legs were missing, and he sounded full of agony. No, no, no, no, no! I approached him, and saw that Sam and Mikaela also panicked as hell. He called out Ratchet and reassured Bumblebee that he was okay. Goddammit, he was definitely not okay. I focused my energy on both hands, creating two spheres. Please, please, please, let this work. I touched his legs but it wasn't working. I couldn't imagine his legs because they were too complicated. I couldn't even fixed the wiring, let alone created the whole leg.
"Merde! Merde! (Shit! Shit!)", I punched the ground real hard. I couldn't do anything. Welcome to the war, Chloe. Place of no mercy and hope.
The ground shook. An army tank attacked us and moved forward slowly. It drove over a car and crushed it. I looked at other side of the road and saw a rescue hummer, a porsche, and two lambos coming directly at us.
I need to do something, I need to do something, I was irritated if I only stood still and did nothing. So we three splitted up. Mikaela went to somewhere, Sam stayed and took care of Bee, and I went to Lennox's team.
Ironhide leapt and dodged the bullets from the tanks beautifully, he shot the asphalt and gave himself enough thrust to the air and dodged another one. Jazz drifted, transformed and jumped to the tank while yelling with his thick accent, "Come on, Decepticon punk!". He attacked the tank and pulled some wires. Sadly, the tank easily threw him because of his small body.
Ironhide dodged more bullets, and also shot the tank with both of his cannons. It stumbled backwards. Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, and Ratchet took advantage of it. They synced with each other and made brilliant combos. Lennox's team arrived at location and attacked the same target. Jazz was also here. This tank was attacked by a whole army and 5 autobots, he was definitely losing. With one last shot in the heart, the tank died. Hopefully.
The ground shook. A strange alien jet landed and transformed in front of us. I never forgot that face, I would never forget it. Megatron.
"It's Megatron! Retreat! Move! Fallback!", Ratchet moved back along with Sunsreaker and Sidewipe. Sides transformed and took me in. I looked back to see Jazz had been shot by Megatron.
"Sides, Jazz is in trouble!", I tried to open the door but he locked it. Jazz was freaking small compared to Megatron.
"I'm really sorry, Chloe, but Ratchet gave direct orders. And Optimus isn't here, too. Megatron is too powerful", he apologized. What? I mean, what? That was your comrade right there and you were just gonna leave him be?
"Sides, sides, please. Let me do something. I won't put myself in danger", I panicked more because Megatron took Jazz with him, "Please, Sides. He's your friend"
We had like 30-seconds moment of silence before he pulled the brake.
"Thanks, Sides", I smiled before hurriedly opened the door. I looked up searching for Megatron, I saw him threw and stepped Jazz just like that. Jazz was still fighting but I had a bad feeling about this. I needed to think of efficient and deadly weapon. Cannon? They were too far away. Sniper? Not enough thrust. No, no, no, no, I was out of time.
Fuck this, I'd attack him with colossal arrow.
I created the big arrow and a bow easily. I aimed at Megatron's shoulder and hoped to get a clean shot. I didn't have much time, it was now or never. I released the arrow.
My heart beated fast.
The arrow hit Megatron badly in the shoulder, but it was too late. A comrade had fallen in front of my eyes. I broke down and stared at them blankly.
"Chloe? Chloe are you okay?", Sideswipe approached me. I blinked fast and shook my head, "Yeah, yeah I'm okay, it's just..", I smiled. Well I just witnessed my comrade died painfully, how was that okay?
"Chloe, don't worry. He died with honor", he put his giant metallic hand under my chin, gently lifted it up, and made me looked at him. It felt so comforting even if we were in the middle of a battlefield. He looked at my eyes, and frowned in confusion, "Your eyes are glowing"
"I.. um.. It's side-effect from my power", I couldn't focus. At first I felt sad because I just saw something horrifying, but now I saw this magnificent sight in front of me. Every curved on his face and body was made into perfection. He caught me blank-staring at him and laughed, "Hey, come on. I know I'm flawless but you don't need to be stunned like that", I blushed.
"Now Optimus just comlinked me. All of us need to protect Sam while he delivered the cube to a safer place. I need you to focus, okay?", he still looked at me. I looked to another way and murmured, "Okay"
"Sides, hands off that squishy. We need to protect another squishy and kick some Decepticreep's afts", Sunny walked to Sides and transformed into Lambo. He still acted cold as fuck. Sideswipe transformed into cars and let me in. We sped up to the location that Ratchet sent, but I could see Sam was running away ; 200 metres from the coordinates. Wow that was fast.
"Sam!", I called him from afar but he didn't respond. I caught up with him, and saw him held the Allspark as if he was a football player. "Keep moving, Sam! Don't stop!", Ironhide and Ratchet followed behind. Sam ran like he was chased by ghost.
Suddenly an F-22 landed in front of him and kicked away those cars that parked before him. Sam rolled and took cover from Starscream. I ran to him, grabbed his hoodie and ran away from that place. Sides, Sunny, Ironhide and Ratchet charged on him. Advantage from being a flying jet, he escaped easily after hurt some of the autobots.
"Sam, get to the building", Ironhide commanded. He dropped on his knees. He was probably tired after all these things.
Sam continued running to the building, and I followed behind. We managed to enter the building, but we still had to go to the top. Sam glanced backwards and sensed that something was coming. I asked him to go upstairs and didn't look back. Not long after that, I jerked to sounds of breaking windows. Megatron just barged in!
"I can smell you, fleshlings!", his sound echoed. I trembled. I felt the floor rumbled and told Sam to go faster. Megatron destroyed the whole second floor meant to reach us, but he failed. He roared, "Maggot!". I created cannon and shot his shoulder – the one that I had shot with arrow – but it didn't affect him much. What was with this robot? Even he already recovered from my last attack. He was such a monster.
I continued running with Sam until we arrived at the top of the building. Sam lighted up the red flare and gave signals to the nearest helicopters. He ran with the flare and screamed, "I'm here!". One of the helicopters appeared in front of us. Sam almost succeeded, until Starscream shot missiles at the helicopter. It broke down and fell, leaving us alone.
While the helicopter was falling, Optimus went to our place, jumping through the roof. It would be long until he arrived so We had to find a place to hide. Suddenly, hands with claws emerged from below. Megatron was finally here. I asked Sam to go hide at the edge of the statue, while I'd handle this monster.
"Is it fear or courage that compels you, fleshlings?", he stood in all arrogant way. It actually intimidated me. I created cannon in my hand just to be ready, "So it was you who attacked me earlier?"
"I did", my voice cracked.
"I can sense energon inside your body, girl. With the little bit of our experiment, you may live as my favorite fleshling", his voice sounded so deep and rough.
"I'd rather die than being experimented on your hand!", I shot him with all I had got. He stumbled backward for a second there. He stood up again and I could see the scar I had made on his body. I felt a little proud.
"Then you shall die", he threw me out. Last sight I saw was Sam's face full of terror.
Height, one of my biggest fear. I was going to die. Right now I was free-falling and there was no chance to survive such height. I was getting closer to the ground every second. Was I going to embrace the death now? I already accepted the fact that I was going to die soon, but not this soon. I still wanted to do many things together with the people I loved.
Now I had to embrace the death.
B-but... Why? Why couldn't I just stand up and face the world, instead of waiting for my death? What would they think if I just surrender my life?
Mom and Dad? Jacob? Sam? Optimus? Jazz? Sideswipe?
Sideswipe. He was a warrior. He fought for his life until last drop of his blood. He would be so outrageous to hear this.
Mom. Dad. They sacrificed themselves for my life. They would be very disappointed.
Jacob. Not long after Mom and Dad died tragically in front of my eyes, I was also in a coma for a few weeks. He had never given up on me the last time I was dying. At that time he still hoped that I had chance to live, even though it was less than five percents and the doctor believed I would die very soon. Well he didn't, he fought for my life instead.
I owed them my life. If I surrendered my life without fighting for it, I would crushed many people's hope and expectation. I was such a fool. That last thought crossed my mind.
Right now I had no time to think. My body moved on its own. I positioned myself in a right stance ; head's up, legs down. I let my power flowed on my hand, and created the same thick flying plate – which saved me when I fell on the bridge along with Sam and Mikaela – located far below me.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT! If I landed on that, my body would crush itself because of the height", I panicked. There should be another way. If I would land on that, I needed another boost to lift me up and reduced the falling speed in order not to break my legs when landing.
I looked down, measured the range, and focused myself. I didn't have much time, I needed something that could gave me a boost. I never looked at jetpack, so it would be Megatron's Wings.
I created the wings in the middle of the spine. It spreaded about 70 centimeters on each side. Wow such a huge wings. It lifted me up immediately with my energy boost.
I survived. But... I didn't know how to fly this thing and I was scared of height, "HEEEEEEELLLPPPPP!", I screamed to my throat. I flew uncontrollably in the sky. I flew to the direction of a battlefield between Optimus and Megatron, and I could see the other Autobots around them clearly. I looked at Megatron and saw that he overwhelmed Optimus. Even though so many humans shot missiles at him, he just wouldn't die. This wasn't good. Well my condition wasn't good either. Someone had to stop me or I would crash into something.
Or...
I could use this speed and crashed Megatron in full speed.
Yeah that sounded sacrificial, but it wasn't a bad plan. This speed could probably caused injury or even tore him apart, and stopped all of this madness. I flew at his direction with full speed.
If this couldn't work and if I died, at least like Sideswipe said about Jazz, I died with honor.
I got too focused with my mind, I didn't even realized the blue sphere that whirled around me. My powers created the sphere on its own, as if it was trying to protect me.
I crashed him right in the center of his body and he stumbled backwards with many explosions. I stopped and fell right away. All the metal armor and wings disappeared. If my power didn't created the sphere, right now I guessed I would had been dead. Even with the protection, I got so many cuts and my head was bloody as hell because of the crash. My hoodie already torn apart, especially around my right hand exposing the tattoos clearly.
I fell right in the middle of this chaos. Sam crawled away from Megatron who was already stood up, but he glared at me and growled. I was already tired, I couldn't stand up, even it was hard to not feel pain. I didn't hear any of his words, or Sam's, or Optimus'. I was too exhausted.
Suddenly Sam stood in front of me still holding the cube, and raised it to Megatron's chest. It reacted and burned his heart, slowly, painfully. He groaned and choked to his death.
It was over, Megatron died.
I pushed myself and stood up, looked at the dead body, and slowly walked to Sam's direction. Optimus knelt and looked at us, "Sam, Chloe, I owe you my life. We are in your debt". I couldn't stand still for long, so Sam backed me up. My hand was on his shoulder, and he held my body. Not long after that, the other Autobots, Black Ops, and Special Teams gathered.
My eyes were frozen at the sight of two silver pieces of Cybertronian on Ironhide's hands. Jazz. "Prime, we couldn't save him", Ironhide handed over Jazz to Optimus. "Oh, Jazz", Optimus mourned. "We lost a great comrade, but gained new ones. Thank you, all of you. You honor us with your bravery", he gave motivational speech. I smiled.
"Permission to speak, Sir", a thick British-accented robotic voice was heard. Who was it? At first I guessed it was Sunstreaker, but it was too smooth to be his. So who was it? "Permission granted, old friend", Optimus answered. I looked at the source of the sound, and gasped a little. It was Bumblebee.
"You speak now?", Sam also surprised to hear him.
Apparently, Bumblebee wanted to stay with Sam. Optimus allowed it if Sam chose to, and he did. He nodded slowly then turned his gaze to Mikaela. When I realized that Sam focused his eyes on her, I pulled back myself to let Sam had little romantic moment with her. I limped and couldn't walk properly, I stumbled because of rocks and fell. Before I expected my butt to meet with the hard asphalt, a metallic hand caught me.
"Careful, Chloe", Sideswipe lifted me up. "Bossbot, I also need your permission, too", he stroked my hair gently and smiled.
"What is it, Sideswipe?", Optimus responded.
"Let me be her guardian"
A/N : Jazz died o(╥﹏╥)o
Review! Oh, and can you already imagine what really happened to Chloe's parents? So many pieces of puzzle in here and there, i hope you guys don't mind, because it's more fun this way xD
Axoire