Yay I'm back. Holidays. Sorry about how slow I've been updating. I've been on holidays in Melbourne for the past week so yeah.
Let's do this…
My fingers drummed against the table top as Simmons opened up his laptop. Mr Keller sat forward with his chin resting on his interlaced fingers, Lennox leaned against the wall, Epps was fiddling with his phone (again) and Optimus and Starscream sat on either side of me completely motionless.
"Would you please stop that" Simmons snapped, glaring at my fingers. I glared back and continued drumming. Lennox hid his grin behind his hand as Simmons grumbled and went back to setting up his computer.
"Alrighty then, here we go" He hit a button and the screen was filled with a very grotesque, frozen robot. Optimus and Starscream both stiffened considerably.
"Oh, a robotsicle" I said. Simmons glared at me and I poked my tongue out at him and crossed my eyes.
"Just a warning, there are things that you will not understand right away" Simmons glanced at everyone else in the room beside me. "Apart from you three" He fixed a slight glare on Optimus, Starscream and me. I arched an eyebrow and crossed my arms as Simmons began his explanation "Sector seven is a top secret government organisation. We specialize in the study of extra-terrestrial species but sixteen years ago we finally found our first hard-core evidence" He gestured to the frozen robot on the screen "We called him NBE1"
"NB…What?" Epps asked
"Non-biological extra-terrestrial, try to keep up with the acronyms" Simmons never looked up from the screen. Epps and Lennox both raised their eyebrows "Anyway, NBE1 here was discovered when an arctic team drilled down into the ice. About thirty meters down their drill broke when it came in contact with its armour, which we discovered was made from a metal that is not found on earth. The metal is more durable and almost completely impenetrable, with human weapons at least. This is what proved to us that our very large specimen was in fact alien"
"This arctic team, who are they?" Mr Keller asked
"The guy in charge was my Dad" I said "You saw him in the recording"
"Yes, Mr Shorecoat. He was supposedly killed four years ago in a car crash, but last week we received word that he was alive. That next day our base was attacked, NBE1 woke up and escaped. Twenty workers were killed" Simmons clicked the slide show and a picture of my dad filled the screen followed by a destroyed hanger.
"Megatron escaped last week. Holy smokes" I blinked. If he had escaped that long ago then why hadn't he come after me earlier?
"I'm glad we arrived when we did" Optimus muttered, rubbing his forehead just above his left eyebrow.
"Feelings mutual Prime" Starscream leaned back in his chair. "Technically I'm glad I kidnapped you when I did 'cause otherwise Megatron would have gotten hold of you ages ago"
"Back up a little here" Mr Keller said "Who's this Megatron you keep referring to?"
"I believe you know him as NBE1" I smiled sweetly at Simmons "If you want I could give you the low down on the hostile alien you had frozen in the basement"
Simmons scowled but Keller nodded enthusiastically "Yes please. Actually the reason I had you brought in was so you could give us information on this new threat that we are facing"
"Righty oh then" I sat back, clasping my hands together "In short Megatron is pretty much like Satan, from what I can gather. I know that you're all asking why something like that would come to earth and the answer is really easy. He was after something called the All Spark"
"The All Spark?" Mr Keller and Simmons asked in unison.
Optimus took over "The All Spark is a great power, the reason behind our race. It has the ability to create life and whole planets. When the war started on our planet the All Spark was dispatched into space. It landed here on Earth"
"When did it land here?" Simmons asked
"Approximately four days ago" Optimus said
Lennox frowned "Hold the phone. You said that Megatron crashed sixteen years ago. That's a very large time difference if he was after the All Spark"
"It's possible that he knew where the Spark was going to land and was on his way to intercept it. Though why he crashed…" Optimus stopped just as Simmons started
"The gravitational pull over the arctic circle probably screwed up his telemetry causing his to crash into the ice. The sub-freezing temperatures will have put him into stasis, and we made sure that he didn't wake up, until last week at least" Simmons examined the slide show and a wistful expression crossed his face "All the things we learned from him. He was a truly amazing creature"
Starscream coughed and Optimus jut looked down right confused as they stared at the S7 agent. Simmons straightened up and cleared his throat.
"As I was saying, we made sure he stayed in stasis…"
"And in doing so, you gave us time to catch up and gave the All Spark time to land" Optimus finished off the sentence.
"Well more to the point…Nah I'll tell you about that bit later" I cut myself off before I could tell them about me being the All Spark "What did you guys say he wanted it for?"
"To turn Earths machines into a new army and to take over the universe" Starscream said briskly. He tapped the back button on the laptop so we could see Megatron again. A range of emotions crossed his face as he studied the screen.
I remembered Abbies last words on the recording and bit my lip. Megatron knew about Starscreams betrayal and was obviously not too happy about it.
"Hey" I nudged his shoulder and gave him a wonky smile "It'll be alright. You just got to watch your back that's all"
His lips twitched and he sat back. "I'm not worried" but his facial expression told a completely different story.
"Sure you're not" I smirked.
"Alright enough with the idle chit chat" Simmons brought the slide show forward to where we had left off "You were saying something about taking over the universe. More details please"
"Yes and what did your father mean by you have something that he wants?" Mr Keller asked "In my opinion it would have to be something very important because, he's working with this Megatron fellow and apparently all he's interested in is the All Spark"
I exchanged a glance with Optimus who gave me a small nod "They will find out sooner or later. And it's not like you can hide it very easily" He must have been referring to my sudden outbreaks of power.
I exhaled "Okay. To put it bluntly, I'm the All Spark"
"Huh" Simmons pulled a face "You mean to say that you are this great… Thing, which everyone is after?"
"Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying" I nodded. They all looked sceptical apart from Epps and Lennox who had already seen what I could do and knew what I was "You want proof. Okay I'll give you proof"
I reached out and picked up Simmons phone, completely ignoring his splutters of protest. I drew it into my chest and shut my eyes. The All Spark powered through me into the phone. I could feel it trembling in my hand as I sent more power into it. At last the power flow stopped and I opened my eyes. I placed the phone back on the table and tapped it.
"Hey there little buddy" I said "Time to wake up"
The phone vibrated, as if it was receiving a call, then it transformed in a tiny phone bot. Simmons squawked in surprise as it scurried over to him. It chirped and beeped as it crawled up the horrified sector seven agents arm. It then settled down on his shoulder with an affectionate buzz.
Epps gave a slight whistle. "Now that's cool man. What else can you do?"
"I can read minds, create force fields and make myself glow" I racked my brains "That's all at the moment but abilities keep popping up so who knows what else I can do. Simmons, stop poking the poor phone bot"
The S7 agent stopped mid poke, and looked at me then back at the very content looking robot. Lennox smothered another laugh at the expression on his face.
"So this deal that your father wishes to discuss…" Mr Keller started.
"Abbies life for the All Spark" Optimus said, as calmly as our current situation would allow. I knew that he too was thinking about what my dad had said. I was certain that my definition of the word anxious and Megatrons were completely different. I had no idea who I should be more worried about. Him, Abbie or Starscream. All of them were under threat. True Abbies was more imminent, but once she was half way safe who was in more danger? Megatron would be going after Starscream because of his betrayal but he would be going after Optimus because, from what I could gather, Megatron didn't particularly like him. I rubbed my temples, a major migraine starting. I was so freaking stressed. I had barely eaten, drunk or slept for days and I had been on the run from evil robots and the government 24/7.
"The All Spark for Abbies life. That's a very high cost" Mr Keller thoughtfully stroked his chin "Do you know what you're going to do?"
"No" I whispered. And it was the truth. I had no idea what to do. At that moment the full weight of the situation sank in. I suddenly felt sick.
"Excuse me" I pushed back my chair, and raced out of the room.
I ran past army personnel, people in suits and other people carrying coffee. I simply followed the exit signs until I burst out of the Pentagon, onto the steps. After falling to my knees I emptied the contents of my stomach into one of the pot plants.
"Ugh, that's like the fifth time I've hurled this week" I spat onto the plant "This is getting…"
My very intelligent conversation with myself was cut off as I hurled again. A few seconds later cool fingers pulled my hair back from my sweaty face as I remained on my knees, breathing hard.
"Are you feeling better?" I recognised Optimus's voice. I whipped my nose and nodded. My stomach had settled down but my head was still throbbing. I rested my head back on Optimus's shoulder and sighed.
"I don't know what to do" I admitted "I mean…I don't know. How am I gonna do this? I'm just a kid. I can't make these sorts of decisions…What if I do this wrong? People could die if…" I stopped when a finger rested on my lips.
"Shh. You won't be able to come up with anything if you keep pushing yourself like this. I may not be a human but I do know that you have been depriving yourself of rest, nutrition and water" I should have known that he would have noticed "We have until tomorrow to come up with something. What you are going to do until then is get yourself some food and get some sleep. You won't be able to help Abbie if you kill yourself in the process"
Not having the energy to argue I merely nodded. "Can I sleep inside you? I'll have nightmares otherwise"
"Um…okay" Optimus helped me to my feet slowly "Everyone is wondering why you left in such a hurry. You didn't really give us an explanation"
"I don't want to go back in" I rubbed my eyes "But I suppose I'll have to, to sort everything out"
"No…They're smart people. They'll come up with something. But it would be a good idea to let them know"
"But…" I started
"Ally stop. You need to sleep more than you need to do this. I'll go back and tell them that you're not coming back in."
"Okay" I nodded, then I hugged him. The Prime froze then very awkwardly but his arms around me "Thanks"
Optimus stepped back, gave me a small smile then his holo disappeared. I made my way down the steps to the still waiting Autobots. The sun had set and the breeze was chilly but I really did not care. I still had major doubts that I could do this but at the moment I was more than happy to listen to Optimus and get some sleep.
I settled back in Optimus's seat and was asleep about two seconds later.
Ha-ha, I'm done. Fighting starts next time.
Sorry this one was awful but, hey I updated so yeah.
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See you later alligators