My Alien Daddy: Chapter Two: Closer Together
Tetrax sat in his office quietly as he worked on paperwork. Sami sat on the floor quietly and tried to read the book she had. She had some difficulty. It was the book, "The Doll People",
"Annabelle flopped on her bed. She tried to reamer where Kate had left her that morning. It had been somewhere in the nursery. What's a nursery?" Sami asked herself. Tetrax looked up at her from his desk,
"It's where the younglings play with their toys and where they recharge," Tetrax explained, "What are you reading, anyway?"
"The Doll People! Mommy used to read the second book to me. She wanted me to read the first book. What's a recharge?" Sami said,
"It's like a nap or sleeping." he said. Sami put the book down and wobbled over to his desk.
"Whatcha reading?" Sami wondered.
"Paperwork. It's asking me if I want to let the turtles in this sector for their educational learning training." he said. Sami looked at the paper in front of her head.
"This one says adopting. Who you doting?" she asked, holding the paper. Tetrax took it and looked at it. He pointed to the name. Her name.
"That's me!" she said excited, "You dopting me?"
"I have to if I want to keep you safe here." Tetrax said.
"So what's my name here?" she asked.
"Sami Shard." he said.
"Shard? Don't you need mommy or daddy's name?" Sami asked.
"I'm not taking you away, it's so no one hurts you here." Tetrax said.
"Kay, do I have to call you daddy?" Sami giggled. Tetrax stopped working at looked at the small girl. He was utterly lost for words. What should he tell her?
"You're kind of supposed to so no one threatens your well being," Predator said, "you already have a broken leg and are defenseless against the stilled officers in this sector of the ship, or any sector."
"Tetrax is basically the Mercenary no one wants to mess with." Predator finished.
"What's a Mercenary?" Sami asked.
"Someone who basically hunts down people to capture, kill, or beat down." Tetrax explained.
"Eh." Sami said as she held her throat.
"It's not that bad." Tetrax said.
"But you're not mean. You're all friendly and stuff." Sami said as she picked up a piece of paper with mathematics in Cybertronian on it. She flipped it over and over, trying to figure out what it said.
"What dis?" Sami asked, holding up the paper.
Tetrax looked at the paper the young child held.
"Mathematics."
"Matetmatics?" Sami asked, bewildered.
"Yeah."
"I no like math." Sami said.
"I know what this one is! Ten to the seventh power!" she said.
Tetrax smiled and picked up the younger. She squealed in delight.
"What you doin?" Sami laughed.
Tetrax tickled the little girl, Sami laughed even louder.
"I ticklish!" Sami giggled. He chuckled.
"Are you ticklish?" Tetrax said as he continued to tickle the girl.
"Yes!" She squealed. He stopped, and then their was silence.
She looked up at him.
"I got go pee now." Sami said. Tetraxpointed to a door which was the lavatory. She skipped over and went inside.
"Typical organic." Predator snickered.
"I thought you wanted no part of this?" Tetrax asked.
"I didn't say that." Predator denied. Tetrax chuckled and went back to his paper work.
Myaxx sighed. Her heart ached as she thought of Tetrax and his newly found youngling. She loved Tetrax, but decided she didn't want to show it. It would be humilating if someone found her in a weak position. He was married. Correction, he used to be married.
She looked at a few blueprints, deciding whichones she should toss and which to keep. She heard the medbay entrance slid open. She turned to see a nervous looking Tetrax.
"What do you want, Shard?" she asked, with her usual anger. He seemed a little unsure and scratched his head.
"Uh, well. I'm the orphaned human's adopted father and, well, I was wondering," he started. Myaxx raised a brow.
"What is it?" she snapped.
He shifted from one leg to the other, "Would you be interested in being her adopted mother?"
Myaxx was stunned. Did he really just ask her that?
She was lost for words. She finally nodded. He nodded back.
"Thank you." he said as he handed her the paper. He started to walk out, but she called out to him, causing him to stop and look,
"I'm going to need to run a few blood tests on her, two solar cycles at the least." Myaxx said. He gave another nod and left it at that. Myaxx sighed. Finally, at peace at last.
Sami sat in the room with the other alien in the room, his back towards her. He had these weird dread lock like hair. She walked over to him and tapped at his armor. Predator looked down at the child.
"Hi!" She said cheerfully.
"Hello, organic." Predator said as he went back to his work.
"I'm not food!" Sami protested, pouting.
"I didn't mean it like that." Predator said.
"Nah!" Sami said as she stuck her tongue out at him.
Predator looked at her with a disturbed glance. Tetrax better pray this thing doesn't spit acid. His pet, Predalien came out of his crate, standing taller than Predator, probably an inch or two shorter than Myaxx. It let out a whiny yawn and scratched its head with its back leg. Predalien sniffed the air and turned its attention towards Sami, who looked at him fearfully.
"He's friendly around younglings." Predator said. Sami looked at it. Predalien tilted his head and sniffed one of her pig tails, leaving a little slime on her hair. Her face went from frightened to disgusted.
"EW!" Sami shrieked as she pulled the sticky glob out of her hair.
"Yack!" She said as she gagged. Predalien let out a hissing noise that sounded like laughing.
"Not funny!" Samisaid as she stood up, glaring up at the alien. He stuck out his second mouth, which was his way of sticking his tongue out.
"EW!" she shrieked again. Predalien picked her up with his tail and tried looking at her better. He "licked" her face, like a dog would if it liked someone.
"Stop doing that!" Sami said as she wiped away more goo off her cheek.
"He likes you, and not as food." Predator said calmly.
"Good to know!" Sami said as Predalien hugged her, pulling his tail with the child, closer to him. Predator couldn't help but chuckle at the sight. Predalien never acted like that before. This organic was full of surprises.
"Why you all slimy?" Sami yelled. Predalien shrieked as his response.
"Ew, more slimy!" Sami said quickly.
"What his name?" Sami asked.
"His name is Predalien." Predator replied.
"Can I just call him 'Dalien?" Sami asked. Predalien looked at the hunter.
"Fine, but don't dress him up in any weird outfits." Predator said.
"What your name?" Sami asked.
"Predator."
"Can I call you Gator?" Sami asked.
"I am not a reptile from your planet." Predator sighed.
"But, it's shorter for me." Sami said.
"Again, fine." Predator sighed in defeat.
"Yah!" Sami cheered. Predalien shrieked happily.
"Predator? Why is your pet trying to eat Sami?" Tetrax asked as he glared at the hybrid. Dalien put the six year old down.
"I got all gooey!" Sami exclaimed. Tetrax picked her up and sat her on the desk. He went into the other room for a few minutes. Sami and Predalien switched confused looks. Tetrax came back with a wash cloth and wiped the girl's face and forehead. Sami took out her pig tails and Tetrax wiped her hair. Her hair reached the top of her back.
"I get changed?" Sami squeaked.
"Into what?" Tetrax asked. Sami went into her backpack and took out a big red Elmo tee shirt, it was big enough to be Sami's nightgown.
"Go ahead." Tetrax agreed. Sami went into the bathroom and changed into the tee shirt. She came back and wobbled into the room, the tee shirt reaching her feet. They only saw her cast foot and a Gir slipper.
"Did you have to kill those creatures if you wanted to wear them?" Predator asked.
"No! They my favorite." Sami said as she slipped on the other slipper. Tetrax looked at the child with a raised brow.
"How your parents understand you, I will never know." Predator said. Tetrax made a little bed for Sami in a room next to his quarters in his office. Predalien layed on the bean bag looking thing in the room and curled up, wrapping his tail around himself. Sami snuggled into the warm blankets. Tetrax tucked her in as Sami read her book. He took the book away and layed next to her.
"Where are you in this book?" he asked. Sami pointed to the spot and Tetrax started to read to her. She went under the covers when the cat was about to get the doll.
"Oh no!" Sami whispered, scared to find out what would happen as she hid under the covers.
Tetrax felt a little embarassed when he saw that the dolls were actually singing,
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T!" sang Bobby. "Sockittome, sockittome, sockittome, sockittome!" Annabelle chimed in. "How about a quieter song?" suggested Nanny. I agree with the doll." Tetrax said. Sami laughed and Dalien snickered a bit.
"Annabelle caught a glimpse of the Captain. He sat on Kate's bed, listening to the doll voices. He could barely hear them, but they were there alright." Tetrax read.
"Stupid kitty! Dolls are for kids!" Sami said. Tetrax chuckled.
After a few more pages, the diamond head was at the end of the second chapter,
"She could think of no way to finish her sentence. And later, curled up on her bed alone in the nursery, Annabelle hugged the secret of Auntie Sarah to herself." Tetrax finished. He looked down to find the child asleep. He gently put the book on the side table next to the bed. He kissed her on the forehead.
He exited quietly making sure not to wake Sami or the hybrid guarding her.
"You sounded like you had fun in there." Predator remarked.
"I read her a book." Tetrax said. Predator nodded. There was silence for about ten minutes until Predator broke it.
"You should sign up for the Council Talent show." Predator taunted.
"Ha. Ha." Tetrax said sarcastically.
Later that night, everyone was in their quarters. Predalien had to go back with Predator back to the hunter's quarters, leaving Sami alone in the room. There was an electric storm, which was the equivalent of a thunderstorm. Sami was peaceful, until she heard a boom. She squeaked and hid under her covers, whimpering terribly.
Sami broke down into tears when the storm got louder. She shook and struggled to get out of her room. She wobbled into Tetrax's room.
"Tetrax!" Sami sobbed. Tetrax awoke with a start, looking at the child standing in his doorway. He turned on the light. He was in his white tank top and black shorts.
"What's wrong, kid?" he asked concerned as he threw the covers off of himself and held the young child, her head on his shoulder, ectoplasmic tears fell from her eyes.
"Storm." Sami cried. She buried her head deeper into Tetrax's shoulder. He rocked her in his arms. Her eyes were puffy from crying, huffing softly.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm here." Tetrax said, rubbing the back of her head.
"I scared." Sami cried. Tetrax got an idea. He put on his boots and put her slippers on Sami's feet.
"Where we going?" Sami sniffled. He picked her up and went to the observatory.
When they reached the observatory, there was a giant window industructible window that showed the outside aka Space. The stars were shining and the lightning flashed. Sami cringed in Tetrax's arms.
"It's okay. Look." Tetrax said as he pointed up. Sami looked and saw that the lightning left a purple and blue streak in the black sky. Making space light up. She gasped at the sight.
"Pretty." She said, amazed. Tetrax layed down on one of the mats with Sami lying on his chest.
"What are you two doing here at this hour?" a female voice asked. Myaxx looked at the sort of family laying on the floor.
"I want her to see the nicer effects of electric storms." Tetrax explained. Myaxx sat next to him and looked up.
"It's always beautiful during a storm." Myaxx said.
"Uh, huh." Sami nodded.
"How's your leg, kid?" Myaxx asked.
"Little better. Still sore." Sami explained. They trio watched the storm as Sami began to doze off again. When she was asleep, Tetrax held Myaxx's hand as they watched the storm flash on and on.
On Earth, Bloom Parker sobbed in Peter Parker's shoulder as they looked into Sami's empty room. Ben Tennyson/Parker, age three, cried.
"Ami! Ami!" Ben cried. Miley Brock, disguised as Miley Parker, age nine, looked into the room and leaned on the door frame, not amused by the six year old's disappearance. A smirk on her face. Her daddy ordered a bombing of the Alfea building, but the Parker's didn't need to know that.
"I hope, Sami is okay." Miley said with mock sympathy.
"I hope so to, Miles." Peter said. The family continued to cry. Gohun watched as Miley walked past, suspicious of the soon to be popstar.
'Something doesn't seem right about Miley.' he thought to himself.
Several nights later, Sami woke up in her own room in the office. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and saw that it was still dark or "night". She shook her head and yawned. There was a slight tapping in another room. She looked in Tetrax's room and saw he wasn't in there. Sami listened and followed the sound. It led out of the office. Her crippled leg had to be dragged behind her because it was still asleep.
"Tetrax?" Sami whispered into the darkened hallway. She walked a few steps and stopped at a door ten doors down from Tetrax's office. She looked up to see that you needed a security code to get in, but she phased through the door. She looked around and saw a dark cage without the door, the chain rattling a bit.
"Human, human." an eerie voice whispered, the chains rattling more.
"Dalien?" Sami whispered. Then, an alien that resembled a regular Alien without the big head lunged at her. She flung herself back. The Alien's acid blood nearly touched her, but it missed. It looked as if someone ripped off it's outer head and there was only a skull for a head.
"HUMAN! HUMAN!" the creature screeched. Sami screamed as she back pedalled the wall, farther away from the door. The Alien's second mouth reached for her, but it didn't reach.
"I got you now, child." a voice called. Sami looked over and saw Venom.
"Help, Help!" Sami called, banging on the wall with her fists. Venom yanked on the creature's chain and grabbed the screaming child.
"KIDNAPPER! HELP, SOMEBODY! TETRAX! GATOR!" Sami screamed, desperately thrashing and moving, wanting freedom.
"No one can help you." Venom snarled, baring his teeth.
"PUT HER DOWN!" a voice boomed as crystal shards flew through the air towards Venom. The symbiote screeched and dropped Sami, shards hitting his suit. Sami looked over to the person shooting the shards.
"Tetrax!" Sami exclaimed as she clung to Tetrax's leg.
Tetrax lunged at the symbiote and pinned him to a wall, holding his bladed arm to Venom's face.
"If you ever touch her again, I swear, I'll break you in seven different ways." Tetrax growled. Venom actually looked intimidated by the threat.
"Yes, Shard." Venom said weakly.
"Xyer, Yster, and Jxer!" Tetrax called. Three dino soldiers came into the room.
"Take this piece of slag to a cell and make sure there is no cracks in the dome." Tetrax ordered.
"Sir, yes, sir!" the soldiers saluted as they escorted the symbiote to his cell.
Tetrax looked down at his leg to see a shaking Sami clinging to his leg.
"It's okay, Sami. Are you okay?" Tetrax asked as he picked her up. Sami nodded.
"What were you doing in here?" Tetrax asked.
"I heard a noise." Sami said.
"A tapping noise?" Tetrax wondered.
"Yeah! How you know?" Sami asked.
"Alien has a habit of tapping his tail against his cage. To attract prey." Tetrax said as he took the girl out of the dark room.
"He eats humans, don't he?" Sami asked shaking. Tetrax nodded. She shuddered fearfully.
"Do you have target practice room?" Sami asked.
"Why yes. Why?" Tetrax asked.
"Can I try?" Sami asked.
"I can't give you any weapons." Tetrax said.
"I got blasts." Sami said.
Tetrax raised a brow, not really sure what she meant.
In the Training Room, Tetrax pulled up some targets and he stot some of the crystals at the targets. He looked down at Sami with a smile. Sami nodded and held up her arms, green energy dancing in her palms. She shot the ectoplasmic blasts and hit most of the targets. Tetrax looked stunned. This child was full of surprises.
"First, intelligence of a 35 cycle genius, than understanding Cybertronian mathematics, and now super human abilities? What's next?" Tetrax asked.
"I no know." Sami shrugged.
"Oh well." Tetrax shrugged. He suddenly shot up. The Allspark! He didn't even begin to look for it! Darn it!
"Tetrax? You kay?" Sami asked.
"I have to get back to your planet first thing tomorrow morning!" he said.
"Why?" Sami asked.
"A bad guy wants it and I have to go get it." Tetrax said as he and Sami hurried to his office. He couldn't believe it had already been a week and he forgot about the slagging thing. The last time Vilgax had called was a lunar cycle ago. He slammed a palm to his head.
"I help?" Sami asked. Tetrax looked at the child, lost for words.
"I have to train you." Tetrax whispered.
"How? My le still hurts." Sami said.
"I've taught a lizard creature how to fight and I could train you too." Tetrax said.
"Kay."
Tetrax and Sami rushed to the office and got changed. Tetrax wore his usual armor and Sami wore her regular clothes.
"Charge at me." Tetrax said as he leaned down.
"Huh?" Sami asked.
"Try to hit me."
Sami came at Tetrax and charged up her fist. She almost had him, when Tetrax grabbed her fist. She tried to get it out of his grasp.
"Rule number one, wait for the enemy to make the first move, it is more unexpected." Tetrax said as he let go. Sami fell back onto the matted floor with an, "OOF!"
Sami got back up, not caring if her leg hurt anymore. She bounced on her toes, fists in a ready position.
"Bing it!" Sami said. Tetrax walked over and used a finger to push her back by her forehead. Sami fell onto her back,
"Hey." Sami said.
"Number Two, don't get cocky." Tetrax said.
"Okay." Sami said with a nod and got back up again.
"Now what you gotta do is grab the opposers arm like this, and flip them over your back when they attempt to throw a shot." Tetrax demonstrated. The whole night and dawn went on as Sami learned different martial arts movements. In the afternoon, Sami learned all of the moves Tetrax had to offer.
"You ready?" Tetrax asked. Sami nodded and stood in a battle stance. Tetrax came at her and she flipped him over. He went to kick and she blocked it.
"Hiya!" Sami said as she elbowed him in the stomach. After a few moves, Sami had him pinned.
"Got ya!" Sami said.
"You're Ready." Tetrax said with a proud smile.
One week left. Tetrax was on earth searching high and low for the Allspark. Sami learned how to hoverboard with him.
"What about over there?" Sami asked. Her vocabulary had cleared over the weekend, but she still couldn't say some things right. She pointed to a metal stack over a dam. They went inside and saw a strange lab.
"Whoa, this is way cool." Sami observed. She walked right into a robotic foot. She looked up and nearly screamed if Tetrax didn't cover her mouth.
"That guy's Megatron. Don't worry, he's frozen." Tetrax explained. They looked around until they saw a cube with markings on it.
"There." Tetrax said as he traced the numerous symbols on the cube.
"Glad to see you, Shard." a voice hissed.