Get that darn thing off

Rumble took a good look at the device that was stuck on her spine. It was fastened with some sort of screws through her thick scaly skin right into the vertebras. He removed the screws first. That hurt terribly, you may know if you have ever had something drilled or stuck into your bones.

She clenched her teeth as hard as she could to endure the pain. It didn't matter… she'd do anything to be free again and to have a piece of that demon Quintesson.
"Okay, the screws are out," Rumble let her know. Then he took a good look at the electronics. He could distinguish a power source, something that looked like a chip and some electronic circuits… but it could just as well be the other way around.
"Let me try this…"
She didn't know what he did but it caused an incredible pain shot right through her spine. Even when Rumble quickly stopped what he was doing it didn't stop.
The pain was so agonizing that it made her faint after seconds.

He noticed that the energy source was getting brighter like a beating heart, a bit brighter at every beat. What if this was some kind of fail safe? A bomb or whatever that would go off when the device was fiddled with. He had to make a quick decision… NOW! Firmly he grabbed the device with both hands, squirmed his fingers under it what worked because the screws were out. He put his feet next to it and with all the strength he had in his body he gave the thing a major yank. With the device in his hands he rolled over the ground ending up on his back. Long flexible needles dangled down from it. Those were embedded into her spine. Quickly he took a closer look at her and put his fingers on the artery in her neck. He felt a faint heartbeat.

From the holes the needles left in her spine dripped a bit of blood mixed with a clear fluid. He didn't dare to touch it cause he didn't know anything about organic bodies. He just hoped yanking the thing out hadn't damaged her nerve system.
Then he noticed the power source was know coloring red and without thinking twice he swung it as far away as he could.
It ignited before it hit the ground, bursting into a frenzy of electrical bolts. Several hit him in the leg, threw him way back into the cave and left his leg paralyzed. The blast caused a lot of falling debris and for a moment Rumble thought the cave would collapse on top of them.
And then it stopped.

He tried to put some pressure on his leg but it didn't respond at all, he didn't even 'feel' it was there. The Beast was still out cold and he wondered if she would ever wake up again or if she was left in a coma. He dragged himself towards her and waited for an hour, sitting right next to her… and another hour… until he lost track of time.

He kept his eyes open for trouble, cause a blast like that must have been noticed above the Pit. The Quintesson might just send in his Sharkticons. He was so focused on the other end of the cave that he didn't notice the slight movement behind him. A soft nudge to his shoulder snapped him out of it. He looked aside and looked into two bright yellow eyes.

"You're awake!" he cheered and jumped onto his feet… or at least onto the one that was still functioning.
"Did it work?" she whispered.
"Well, it's off," he said. "Can you move?"
She got to her feet and transformed back to her humanoid form. First the huge beast shrunk and shrunk and then it's shape changed into a humanoid body. With a long drawn out sigh and with tears of joy rolling down her cheeks she fell to her knees. "Finally… I'm my own self again."
Rumble noticed she looked just like in that dreamy forest in her mind. Red fiery hair, green eyes with the spotted pattern on her skin just above her eyes.

She looked up to him with her big green eyes and reached her hand out to him. When he took her hand and pulled her back onto her feet there was this overwhelming sensation again of a soul meeting a spark. She held her breath for a moment. She'd never sensed a spark this intimate before. If Rumble would breath he would have held his breath as well. But he didn't and because he wasn't sure what else to do he just took his hand back and tried to compose himself.

Just when he managed to do so she took his face in her hands, gently pulled him closer and pressed a soft grateful kiss on his lips.
"Thank you for setting me free, Rumble."
With flushed cheeks he gave her a surprised look. "H-how do know my name?" There was that overwhelming intimate sensation surfacing again while they stood so close together.

"Alright, enough already!" Rumble got dizzy from being thrown from one sensation into another so he grabbed her shoulders and moved her an arms length away from him. "Will you stop that!"
"I'm not doing that," she grinned. "It's just happening. It's new to me too."
Geese… these organic females sure was a hand full! He sure was glad there weren't any female Decepticons… he'd go nuts all the time!

…Awkward silence…

"So you know my name… How did you know that?" He wanted to know.
"That's one of my talents," she smiled. "Mechanical life forms are like an open book to me." She slightly tilted her head. "My name is Alyx."
"Hi, Alyx," Rumble said. "Am I an open book to you all the time?"
She grinned. "No, not ALL the time. I have to put some effort into it"

Suddenly she noticed she was totally nude! Her long hair only covered her shoulders, breast and a part of her back. Her long fluffy thick tail – in the same colors as her hair - was curled around her hips. The rest was bare skin.
Rumble gave here a wondering look. "What's bothering you now?"
"I'm not wearing anything!" her cheeks flushed, she curled her tail a bit tighter around her hips and made sure her hair totally covered her breasts.

"Me neither," he grinned.
"You're wearing metal plating!" she frowned at him.
She pinched in her left arm, looking for something under her skin. "Darn… I had an outfit-materializer implanted in my arm… It's been removed!" Annoyed she looked around for a moment, thinking of a plan.

"Let's get out of here and see if that Quintesson has taken it!"
She started to run towards the light at the end of the cave they were hiding in and stopped when she noticed Rumble wasn't following her. "What are you waiting for?"
"I can't use my right leg, it was damaged when that device exploded into a thousand electric bolts. My leg was hit…" You couldn't see any damage on his leg, it just wasn't functioning.

Quickly she ran back to him. "Don't worry, I'll fix that! That's another of my talents." She put her hand on the damaged leg. A golden light lit up in the palm of her hand that caused a warm tingling sensation in his circuits. Slowly the feeling in his leg came back "Your circuits were fried. Now they're as good as new again."
"Amazing… how does that work?
She shrugged her shoulders. "Don't know exactly. I do know how to use it."
When she was done he got on to his feet and they ran towards the end of the cave. They ran right into an army of Sharkticons!

Let's hope Alyx has some more talents up her sleeve to take care of

those nasty Sharkticons!